A 50-year-old Louisiana man, Rafe Paul Grant, has been sentenced to jail after airport staff at San Francisco International Airport found 30 pounds (13.6 kg) of marijuana in his checked suitcase. He was detained by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in February 2025 before he could board a KLM flight to Amsterdam, and San Mateo County prosecutors announced the sentence in August 2026.
🇺🇸 San Francisco International Airport, San Mateo County, California · California, United States
Rafe Paul Grant, a 50-year-old man from Louisiana, has been sentenced to jail after staff at San Francisco International Airport found 30 pounds of marijuana in his suitcase before he tried to board a flight to the Netherlands, San Mateo County prosecutors said Thursday.[1]
In February 2025, Grant checked his bag at SFO with a ticket on a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight to Amsterdam.[1] A random bag check found the drugs, and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent detained him.[1]
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