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May 2021
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FBI chasing homemade hot-air balloon mak...

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Retired police lieutenant and campus safety expert Eric Rosoff joins host Ana Garcia to discuss the strange case of a person releasing homemade hot-air balloons over the Burbank airport flight path. The FBI was tasked with figuring out who was behind this potentially dangerous crime. After the FBI’s progress stalled, Rosoff and his partner’s investigation led to something they did not expect: a drug bust.

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