Man Cons His Way Into Smuggling Organization, Sentenced to 17 Years
Kevin Felts lived a mundane life as a 60 year-old chemical engineer in Brazoria, Texas. That is, until he managed to convice Nora Aguilar, a former convict with ties to drug smuggling organizations, that he was a fighter pilot returned from Iraq. Aguilar, impressed, bought Felts a small plane and Felts began flying millions of dollars worth of cash for a drug cartel from various points in the United States to the Mexican border. Felts’ exciting new career as a drug smuggler ended, however, in March 2005, at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville, Georgia, where Felts was apprehended carrying suitcases containing $1.3 million. He was sentenced last Thursday to 17 years imprisonment by Judge William C. O’Kelley of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
