Drug smuggling

Casey Anthony's disbarred lawyer jailed in cocaine smuggling case

Todd Macaluso, a California lawyer who was one of several defense attorneys in the Casey Anthony murder case, is now jailed on charges that two weeks ago, he conspired to fly at least 3,300 pounds of cocaine from Ecuador to Honduras for eventual distribution in the U.S., according to a federal complaint.

Macaluso, 54, who has a pilot's license, was captured on a secretly-made recording in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, telling two co-defendants that the corporate jet he had just arrived in from Orlando had the cargo space and heft to carry the 3,300 pounds, the complaint said.

Macaluso and the other two were arrested by Haitian authorities on Nov. 14, the same day as that meeting, the complaint says.

They have since been flown to New York, where a U.S. magistrate in Brooklyn on Nov. 19 ordered them held without bail.

They're accused of conspiring to possess and distribute cocaine.