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A B.C. airline employee lost her airport security clearance after she was arrested outside a drug house during a dramatic police raid in which officers found a hidden compartment in her car that was stuffed with drugs and a loaded pistol.

She has now also lost her appeal to get her job back.

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Marilyn Thep-Outhainthany was waiting in the passenger seat of a car for her husband, who had gone inside a house in Surrey, B.C., to run an errand, in 2007.

Their timing was terrible — police were just swooping in on a drug raid. Officers chased after fleeing suspects, people in the house were arrested at gunpoint and police shot a belligerent dog.

In the chaos, Ms. Thep-Outhainthany and her husband were both arrested.

A search of their car, which was registered to her mother but to which she was listed as the principal driver, revealed a secret compartment containing a load handgun and a substantial amount of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and ecstasy.