LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Prosecutors said a Los Angeles man is facing charges after trying to fly out of the city with six packages of suspected heroin disguised in Christmas wrapping paper.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said James Mitchell, 25, attempted to fly out of Los Angeles International Airport Dec. 10 on a Frontier Airlines flight to Cincinnati, Ohio, but Transportation Security Administration staff conducted on “image scan” on his checked bag that discovered “an unknown dense material” in the luggage.

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(Photo courtesy of U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California)