Posted on 10/06/2012 11:31:16 AM PDT by Steelfish
Cops Nab Alleged TSA Thief, Hundreds Already Fired
By LEE FERRAN, MEGAN CHUCHMACH , RANDY KREIDER and BRIAN ROSS Oct. 6, 2012 A TSA employee working in a Los Angeles airport could become the 382nd worker fired from the security agency for allegedly stealing from travelers, a years-long problem highlighted in a recent ABC News investigation.
Los Angeles police released a statement late Friday saying a passenger came to the authorities after he said money had been taken out of his wallet while he was going through airport security at Los Angeles International Airport. After a brief investigation, police arrested 47-year-old TSA employee Clyde Reese for the alleged theft.
As of Friday, the TSA said Reese would be removed from screening duties and could be fired should wrongdoing be proven, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. Reese was reportedly booked in Los Angeles on a misdemeanor theft charge.
The alleged theft occurred just a day after Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) called on the TSA to strengthen its internal anti-theft policies in response to the ABC News investigation.
As part of the investigation, ABC News tracked an iPad that was purposefully left behind at an airport security checkpoint to the home of a TSA agent who was later fired for the alleged theft. That officer was the 381st TSA employee fired for alleged theft since the agency's founding a decade ago, the TSA said.
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need photo to decide if not guilty
” That officer was the 381st TSA employee fired for alleged theft since the agency’s founding a decade ago, the TSA said.”
They aren’t officers, they are agents.
Rape the elderly and children to avoid offending the moose.
Privatize the TSA and make them union so you will not be able to fire them!/s
They say 382 TSA employees were fired, but they don’t say how many were arrested, tried, or convicted.
I wonder why?
TSA, a piano player in a whore house has more credibility.
Dismantle.
They have never caught a real terrorist. They only condition travelers to the police state. Their expansion to trains, busses and roadblocks needs to be challenged.
Thousands Stealing Anything
Anyone that steals from We the People under the color of law should be hanged for sedition.
TSA has got to go away.
I will not fly. Leave the junk alone.
“I refuse to be treated like a Criminal and whether I have anything to hide”
I can drive where I need to go. OH my the airlines are going broke! Oh my the price of gas is going up! Oh my EPA wants to shut down all the coal fired generation!
I have just about had it with anyone in Washington. UP to here. Just F em all. Someone get names and addresses.
I agree 1000% with you.
Last time I flew they checked my hands for explosives.
That’s as close as they are gonna get to me.
What chapped my hide was there was nobody behind me, and whoever was in front of me was already finished putting his shoes back on.
I’m a career defense industry employee, with all that entails, and they think I’ve been handling nasty stuff????!!!!!!????
F em and the horse they rode in on :(
“To professionalize, you must federalize.”
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