TSA Thieves

"TSA agent accused in airport theft" Associated Press, February 03, 2012

NEW YORK - A Transportation Security Administration agent stole $5,000 in cash from a passenger’s jacket as he went through security at John F. Kennedy International Airport, authorities said yesterday, the latest in a string of thefts that has embarrassed the agency.

AmeriKa's Gestapo!

Alexandra Schmid took the cash from a Bangladeshi passenger’s jacket as it went along an X-ray conveyor belt Wednesday night in Terminal 4, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s police force.

Surveillance video showed Schmid taking the money from a jacket pocket, wrapping the money in a plastic glove, and taking it to a bathroom, Della Fave said.

The money has not been recovered, he said. Police are investigating whether Schmid gave it to another person in the bathroom....

The arrest Wednesday occurred the same day that a federal judge sentenced former TSA screener Ricky German to eight months in prison for trying to steal a laptop from a passenger at the Memphis airport in December 2010....

The cases are part of a series of recent theft allegations against TSA employees:

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They are also sick perverts.