Local Newswire Charges filed against 5 guys who flew plane of weed-stuffed hockey bags into Blaine airport

We’re shocked Weeds hasn’t attempted a plot line similar to this one yet: Back in September, five men, two of whom were from the Twin Cities, were arrested for their involvement in a drug smuggling plot that involved sneaking 132 pounds of marijuana packed inside large hockey bags onto a plane that landed in Blaine.

According to the indictment that was unsealed on Tuesday in federal court in St. Paul, the five men, including St. Paul’s Todd C. Skonnord and Andover’s Cameron L. Christensen, had possession of and actively conspired to distribute 50 or more kilograms of marijuana.

According to the report, the plane carrying the drugs landed at the Blaine airport at a time when the control tower was closed and the airport was in an uncontrolled status. Tipped off about the unusual landing, a law enforcement officer was waiting for the plane on the airport’s taxiway and quickly discovered the large athletic bags full of pot.

Christensen and Skonnord were not on the plane at its landing (instead it was being piloted by two men from Colorado), but were arrested four days later after being pulled over by a state patrol officer in Iowa for their involvement with the plan. Christensen and Skonnord had a small amount of marijuana on them at the time, as well as $80,000 in cash and several cell phones that contained incriminating text messages and photos of marijuana plants.

With photos of money on the plane’s dashboard also on one of the cell phones, it was probably only a matter of time before at least one of these pictures ended up on Facebook. There’s a joke about being “high” here that we’re just dying to jump on, but we know better. Unlike these guys.