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Two federal air marshals pleaded guilty yesterday to taking $15,000 to smuggle cocaine on a flight in December and agreed to cooperate with the government, which could mean other arrests are coming — though prosecutors said that might not be the case. According to the criminal complaint against the pair, Shawn Ray Nguyen and Burlie Sholar admitted to accepting the money in exchange for using their positions to sneak about 33 pounds of cocaine past...

From the "It's good to know we have this kind of people protecting us" file comes the story of two federal air marshals who seem pretty happy abusing their positions, if testimony from a Homeland Security agent is correct. Burlie L. Sholar III and Shawn Ray Nguyen are accused of conspiring with a cooperating witness to use their jobs to smuggle 33 pounds of cocaine aboard a plane from Houston to Las Vegas. They were...