Posted on 10/18/2006 7:34:19 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
MILWAUKEE - County authorities said a screener with the Transportation Security Administration was arrested early Saturday after a report that she took money from a passenger's wallet.
The passenger, from Genoa City, Wis., was waiting to go through screening at General Mitchell International Airport when the incident occurred, the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department said. The passenger reported losing $20.
But authorities eventually recovered $235 after a co-worker told authorities he saw the suspect storing items behind a magazine rack.
The woman, 26, is based in Milwaukee and has been working with TSA for 4 years.
She was taken to jail awaiting a charge of theft and was being held on a cash bail amount of $200.
The Transportation Safety Administration employs the screeners. A spokeswoman says there have been cases of theft before, around the country. She says they have zero tolerance for theft.
The screener in question has been put on administrative leave.
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Must-see TV.
The screener in question has been put on administrative leave.
Zero tolerance, gubmint style. "Thank" you, RATs and RINOs for saddling the TSA with the gubmint union.
Question; could she be brought up on federal charges? If not, then she picked both the right employer and the right county because we have a charge-nobody DA both outgoing and incoming (regardless of who wins the election). If so, however, there's a bulldog of a US Attorney just licking his chops.
Clearly, the 'gubmint isn't spending enough on TSA worker training...... /sarc
"Deprivation of rights under color of law" - federal felony.
TSA does not normally prosecute these criminals. They say it is because of security, but really, they bust an average of two a week somewhere, and they don't want the publicity, so they let them go.
Be very, very wary if a former TSA employee comes to you for a job, as TSA does not even give negative recommendations for these thieves.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Then she chose poorly on her venue. US Attorney for Eastern Wisconsin Steve Biskupic is a hang-em-all prosecutor; just ask several ex-Milwaukee aldermen, a former state Senator and in about a year, our current governor, Jim "Craps" Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale).
It's a union job. It will take years of documentation of that kind of misbehavior to dislodge her from the position.
I watched the video....did I miss something ?
I didn't see nothing that the written story didn't tell me.
Not at any large company. Large companies like the government has policies and procedures in place to make sure the event is carefully documented and investigated so that when they fire the person they won't end up getting sued.
Even in what appears to be an obvious case of getting caught red handed, the victim might decide that it isn't worth pressing charges over $20 if it means they might have to return to testify. The thief may have a history with the other TSA employee that tipped off authorities about the money hidden in the magazine rack.
Therefore the suspected thief gets sent home while the situation is investigated throughly, and statements are taken. If the evidence is there the authorities will file charges, and then it's safe and easy for the employer to fire the thief.
Juries are unfortunately too easily sold a conspiracy theory in a wrongful termination suit, and they have a tendency to rule in favor of the poor out of work individual that can't get a job because they were fired when it's a big business or the government that has to pick up the bill.
The screener in question has been put on administrative leave.
Putting a thief on administrative leave doesn't sound like zero tolerance to me.
Thank God for at-will employment states.
-ccm
I had an odd thing happen, passing through Port security in Seattle, I have money clip on front pocket wallet. I had to take the money off and hand carry it through. Of course I beeped as I was wearing suspenders, the screener told me to open my hand and the money fluttered to the floor.
Don't move we will pick it up.
I only had about $38 in tens, fives, twos and ones.
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