An American Airlines flight attendant was sentenced to prison for 9 years after smuggling 25 pounds of cocaine.Kevin Carter/Getty ImagesA judge sentenced former American Airlines mechanic Paul Belloisi to 9 years for smuggling cocaine.Police found cocaine worth $250,000 in the electronics compartment of an American Airlines plane.Belloisi's attorneys argued the sentence was overly harsh.A former American Airlines mechanic nearly managed to smuggle 25 pounds of cocaine into the United States worth a quarter of a million dollars — until the flight was marked for a random search.