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Delta employee arrested for possession of narcotics, airline says

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Delta Air Lines said the change, effective this year, will “result in parity of the cost of health care coverage between same-sex domestic partners and employees in legally recognized marriages regardless of U.S. location.”
By Ana Santos
Nov 5, 2015

A Delta employee was arrested for possession of narcotics, according to a statement by Delta Air Lines.

A 51-year-old employee was taken into custody by Clayton County police, according to a report by Channel 2 Action News. Two kilograms of cocaine were allegedly found in the airport agent's luggage in September.

The employee, who was not a flight attendant, was immediately suspended and later terminated from the airline, Delta told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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