A Brooklyn, New York jury has ordered Delta Airlines to pay US$759,000 ($158m) in damages to a Guyana-born security guard who was arrested after a baggage handler planted cocaine in his suitcase, the New York Daily News reported on Thursday.
“I must give praise and thanks to God!” a beaming Roger Levans was quoted as saying outside the Brooklyn Federal Court, after the jury deliberated for only two hours and found the airline was negligent.
The report said that when he was stopped at the John F Kennedy Airport in January,
