Police arrest pilot of abandoned drug plane in Texas

Police have arrested the pilot of a small plane that was abandoned at an airport in the Houston-area with about 100 pounds of marijuana aboard, officials said Tuesday.Deputies and federal Homeland Security agents arrested 33-year- old Barrington Carl Slack Monday afternoon outside a restaurant in the suburb of Houston, according to a statement form the Waller County Sherriff's Office.Slack, a native of Jamaica who now is a U.S. citizen, has an extensive criminal history, mainly drug-related, according to local media reports.Slack was sent to a Waller County Jail, charged with possession of marijuana.Slack's twin-engine, six-seat aircraft skidded off a runway last Monday at the Houston Executive Airport in west Houston. The plane was abandoned at the airport before investigators arrived.Houston, a city of the U.S. state of Texas, is sometimes used by drug dealers to transport marijuana and cocaine from Mexico to major cities like Atlanta, Chicago and New York, according to a study published by the U.S. Justice Department in 2009.