Yet another case of trusted insiders abusing their position.

This time, it’s Air Marshalls smuggling drugs.

Two federal air marshals are facing drug charges after allegedly agreeing to smuggle cocaine from a man who turned out to be a government witness, the U.S. attorney’s office in Houston, Texas, announced Monday.

Shawn Ray Nguyen, 38, and Burlie Sholar, 32, were arrested Thursday after allegedly receiving 15 kilograms of cocaine and $15,000 cash delivered to Nguyen’s home and agreeing to take the drugs on a plane, prosecutors said in court papers.

The U.S. attorney’s office accused the two men of agreeing to use their official positions as federal air marshals to bypass airport security and smuggle the cocaine on board a flight from Houston to Las Vegas, Nevada, in exchange for the money.

Once again, the privileged insider is the threat and they would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those pesky kids! they hadn’t been narc’ed out.

It’s my understanding that Air Marshalls don’t pass through “regular” airport security because they would have to publicly authenticate themselves as Air Marshalls in order to get their guns past security and they’re supposed to be undercover. Unfortunately, this apparently also means that the same preventative controls that the rest of us are subjected to don’t apply to them.

I guess that everyone forgot that those controls are about preventing more than just weapons getting on planes. Sounds like some additional controls are needed, along with a few remedial viewings of Miami Vice.