You’ve got to give points for efficiency. Detectives say the 30 year old luggage screener would use his phone to sell stolen cameras and laptops online — often by the end of his shift.
Over $50,000 worth of electronics were taken from passenger bags in the last six months. Nelson Santiago had worked at the Continental/Southwest terminal of Fort Luederdale-Hollywood Airport (near Miami, Florida) since 2009.
The scam came undone when a Continental employee busted Santiago playing fumble jumble with the iPad and his cojones, and reported it to officials. [MSNBC]
travis
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 6:28 PMSUE? Then hopefully the TSA will lose some funding and they will revert back to measures that actually work rather than measures of peoples bits.
Corteks
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 6:28 PMWow the TSA just gets more and more disgusting. Government funded criminals eh? :(
Alex
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 7:05 PMthey’re crooks, well not all of them but it’s more than just electronics. My friend had her new jeans stolen…jeans! who the hell steals pants?
Andrew
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 7:17 PMClearly they are placing the people in charge of security without proper screening. Essentially, it makes the entire system completely useless. The implications are huge…
The next headline will read “TSA found to be employing suspected terrorist cell members”.
Francis
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 7:29 PMSeriously how is a bomb/weapon/etc more likely to wind up on a plane – a passenger trying to smuggle one on, or via a corrupt TSA agent after a quick buck ?
Steve
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 7:52 PMThere was a great sketch on Come Fly With Me regarding baggage theft.
DarthDVD
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 2:48 AMyou would think there would be enough cctv coverage of the baggage/baggage screening room to stop this from happening.
Cflow
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 10:55 PMI know that an iPhone USB cable went missing from my luggage. They take anything they want.
Keep important stuff in your carry-in luggage.
Lesson learned.