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Another Vancouver airport employee has been stripped of their security clearance — and lost their job — over an organized crime scare, this time after an Air Canada staffer was found in the United States carrying almost 12 kilograms of marijuana and more than $353,000 in bulk currency near the Canadian border.

David Sargeant, 50, was an airline ground employee for almost 30 years, working as a station attendant at Vancouver International Airport, mainly doing baggage handling, towing aircraft and providing service for passengers with disabilities.

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His job requires him to maintain a Transportation Security Clearance allowing access to restricted areas of the airport, which he was granted every five years without problems.

He has no criminal convictions and a clean work record.

In 2009, Transport Canada was alerted to an incident in 2003 involving Sargeant by an undisclosed agency, but was told the information could not be shared, so it quietly sat there until last year when it “became actionable.”