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Disturbing new evidence reveals a threat to our homeland security is worse than originally thought. The News Four WOAI Trouble Shooters first uncovered records last May showing 1400 airport security badges and uniforms are missing from airports here and across the country. Now, new information obtained by Trouble Shooter Brian Collister shows a dramatic increase in the total number. But that's not all the Trouble Shooters found. A WOAI viewer contacted the Trouble Shooters because he found a TSA screener's jacket for sale at a local thrift store. Security experts fear TSA uniforms could help terrorists pull off an attack....

DETROIT (AP) - A man who was discharged from the Air Force amid allegations he expressed sympathy for Osama bin Laden was found guilty Thursday of lying to get a job as a baggage screener at the Detroit airport. A federal jury deliberated for about four hours before convicting Yemeni immigrant Sadeq Naji Ahmed on two counts of making false statements. Each charge is punishable by up to five years in prison; sentencing was set for Aug. 22. The government said Ahmed lied on his job application when he said he never left a job under unfavorable circumstances, and when...

Several airport security screeners have sent me polite letters criticizing some of my comments in my last two columns, prompting this question to you: In managing our personal security, should we guard against possible or probable threats? Consider the measures and the resource expenditures I might take to guard Mrs. Williams and me against all possible threats to our security. Even though I live in Pennsylvania, well outside of tornado alley, I'd construct a tornado shelter because it's possible for a tornado to strike anywhere. I'd no longer get into my car and drive off without doing a thorough check...

Screener Sends Himself Through X-Ray DENVER - A security screener at the Denver airport has been disciplined for sending himself through an X-ray machine. "I cannot ascribe any sort of motive to why anyone would do this," said Mike Fierberg, spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration. Fierberg would not release the screener's name or detail the punishment. "The screener in question did not jeopardize the safety of any passengers or aircraft," he said Monday. "But it was clearly behavior that is not acceptable."

DIA screener charged in theft from purse By Marilyn Robinson Special to The Denver Post Saturday, February 07, 2004 - A federal security screener at Denver International Airport has been charged with stealing $700 from the purse of a passenger Monday night. Steven McCumber, a 41-year- old Transportation Security Administration employee, was charged Thursday with felony theft, said Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney's office. Marivel Sotelo of Longmont planned to fly out of DIA Monday night with family members and discovered, after passing through the A concourse security checkpoint, that seven $100 bills had been taken from...

(Windsor Locks-WTNH, July 4, 2003 9:00 PM) _ An explosives expert who told airport screeners he was carrying a Russian land mine in his carry-on luggage was charged with Breach of Peace Friday night at Bradley International Airport. Tommy Dale Smith, 43, of Charlotte, North Carolina, teaches military personnel overseas how to deactivate mines and other military ordinance. While going through security, he told a TSA screener that he had a Russian land mine in his bag. The mine was inactive and did not contain any explosive material. Smith was questioned and charged with Breach of Peace and Inciting Public...

A federal airport screener at Portland International Airport is on unpaid leave after being accused of taking $1,300 in cash from a woman's purse last month at a security checkpoint. Thirteen crumpled $100 bills were found in a garbage can near the checkpoint after the woman discovered the money was missing. The passenger, 39-year old Leonora Usi of Aloha, said she has a video her husband took as she passed through airport security. Usi said the video shows the screener holding something in his left hand while she is being searched.

APA Judge Grants Screeners Temporary Victory Asianweek.com Reach Emil Guillermo at emil@amok.com If you were wondering when the law would come into play for those beleaguered airport baggage screeners, we finally got some legal maneuvering last week. You’ll recall that right after Sept. 11, Congress was so eager to deal with the threat of terror that it put the airports under federal authority, with the Aviation Transportation Security Act. That in turn put all the screening under the control of the feds. But it came with a strange requirement: All screeners had to be U.S. citizens.