A voodoo-practicing, drug-smuggling baggage handler will rot in prison after a Brooklyn federal judge yesterday slammed him with three life sentences — and then some — for endangering the lives of countless airline passengers.
Former American Airlines baggage handler Victor Bourne, 37, was nailed with the stiff sentence — plus an additional 35 years — for masterminding an international drug-trafficking ring that smuggled cocaine and other illicit drugs in cargo holds and internal walls of AA jets going in and out of JFK.
Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis said Bourne’s greed jeopardized the safety of New York air passengers, because drugs were stored in potentially catastrophic areas.
In one case, for instance, Bourne’s ring disassembled a jet’s wing to hide narcotics inside.
“The need to protect the public from these kinds of dangers requires a long sentence,” said Garaufis, adding that Bourne’s acts were “placing hundreds of passengers’ lives at risk.”
Bourne’s mom, Maria Alleyne — who hired a witch doctor to put a curse on the prosecutors, according to court documents — refused to enter the courtroom.