Posted on 11/26/2010 10:52:10 AM PST by Qbert
ATLANTA -- Channel 2 Action News has learned a TSA security worker accused of abducting and sexually assaulting a woman had previously been convicted of misdemeanor harassment and stalking.
Randall King remains hospitalized following a suicide attempt. Police said last Wednesday, King agreed to drive a woman home from the airport. Instead, investigators said King took her to a MARTA station parking lot and placed novelty handcuffs on her.
Investigators said he drove her 50 miles away to his home in Troup County and sexually assaulted her. The woman told police that King gave her a suicide note, his car and let her go, investigators said. A spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration said privacy laws precluded him from releasing any background information on King.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Regan reviewed court records from Clinton County, Pennsylvania. According to the records, King was charged with nine offenses of harassment and stalking by communication in January 2001. A court clerk told Regan that King pleaded guilty and spent three months in jail for skipping a court appearance.
TSA has a long list of “disqualifying offenses” for employment at the federal agency that operates airport security. Those offenses include felonies, violent crimes, theft, and crimes involving security and transportation. Regan checked the list and found that it did not include misdemeanor offenses of harassing and stalking.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsbtv.com ...
“Randall Scott King, 49, was hired by the TSA as a Master Transportation Security Officer/Behavior Detection Officer in January 2005.”
http://wsbradio.com/localnews/2010/11/tsa-staffer-accused-in-abducti.html
Your entire post is a hilarious characterization of this farce. We laugh...but we cry.
This crap is knee deep....It's almost as if their protecting the interest of airlines interest, while the rest of the country is completely over run, with God knows who....
Yep, it's Face-Palm City.
This is like the cops arresting us for overdue meter parking as Illegals are camped out on our lawn.
This obsession with terrorist "security" measures targeting Joe Six-Pack started with GW, but now it's WWF-style outta control with 0bongo.
WHO BOMBED US ON 9/11 AGAIN?? WHO WEARS SHOE-BOMBS?? WHO IS INVADING THE USA?? (Hint: NOT "Bible-clingers, gun-toters, and American-Firsters.")
No one is talking about hiring felons. Then again, no one can foresee if you’re going to commit a felony on the job. That’s a risk every employer takes cuz we have free will and none of us would want to live in a world where we couldn’t freely choose to do the right thing.
We’re not talking about felons. The list of disqualifying offenses for being hired by the TSA does not include misdemeanor offenses of harassing and stalking. It should, no?
Stalking does not result in a traffic ticket.
Traffic tickets are like theater tickets.
They are to raise money.
Now were all suspects...
Stalking is not a petty crime.
Great Idea!
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