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2024-09-28 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Pilot, passenger arrested on drug charges after plane makes emergency landing in Calif.

[NYPOST] A small plane made an emergency landing on a southern California highway — and the instructor pilot and his student passenger were arrested for smuggling drugs, according to police.

The pilot, 21-year-old Gabriel Leon Breit, called authorities around 1:45 a.m. on Thursday morning and reported that the Piper Cherokee Pathfinder was experiencing engine trouble and he would be landing on State Route 76 in Oceanside, NBC San Diego reported.

Breit and his passenger, 36-year-old Troy Othneil Smith, were uninjured and landed the craft safely — but when police arrived they saw one of the men hiding a backpack in the brush on the side of the road, Oceanside Police Assistant Chief Taurino Valdovinos said at a news conference.

Breit, a flight instructor, and Smith, his student, were detained.

Police discovered a small amount of cocaine on Smith. Another kilo of cocaine was discovered in the backpack. Both were charged with drug trafficking.

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