Article: Origins: suspicious packages at the airport lead a DEA agent to Chester. A son leaves India - but not his family's pill business.(Drug Enforcement Administration)

Byline: John Shiffman

Nov. 20--THE STORY SO FARHours before DEA agents are to arrest Internet drug dealers in a worldwide sweep, Temple grad student Akhil Bansal races from his Roxborough apartment to flee home to India. Today's installment takes us back to the day the case began. It is February 2004. PHILA. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT It all began on a frigid February 2004 morning -- back when Akhil Bansal still viewed shipping pills as a chore for his father, back when DEA agents didn't even have Internet access at their desks. At the airport, a squat Airborne Express supervisor noticed three suspicious packages on the green conveyer belt and, because ...

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