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Old Jan 23, 2023 | 12:50 pm
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Originally Posted by dlffla
It is not TSA’s role to search for drugs. If they find any in hand luggage during screening, they can call in police but do not always do so. Checked luggage is mostly subject to checks for explosive devises. Checking for illegal drug smuggling is, for the most part, done on bags and people arriving into countries.
so who screens checked bags??

and whoever does it must surely notice this sort of thing Ams ould have a specific look on the scanners given the volumn of the stuff and it’s concentrated in only a couple of bags.
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