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Another TSA Agent
Accused of iPad Theft
ABC News, by Randy Kreider and Megan Chuchmach
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Posted By:Ribicon, 12/7/2012 3:05:02 PM
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| A TSA agent was arrested this week and charged with stealing from passengers traveling through New York´s John F. Kennedy Airport, adding to the long list of TSA officers accused of theft of passenger belongings. TSA baggage screener Sean Henry, 32, was arrested on Tuesday after a sting operation conducted jointly by the TSA and the Port Authority Police Department caught Henry leaving the airport with two iPads that had been planted as part of the sting, as well as numerous other electronics devices he had allegedly stolen from passengers. Just as in a recent ABC News investigation of thefts
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Comments:
With two earrings and a hoodie, he looks like a street mugger. This class of muggers is different; object to a probing in progress and you´re the one thrown in prison.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
SpeedMaster, 12/7/2012 3:10:26 PM (No. 9054065)
Can´t fix stupid. A phone call or a signal from an iPhone turns an iPad into a paper weight.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ann_n_GA, 12/7/2012 3:19:06 PM (No. 9054076)
Holder will probably save him.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hotrod, 12/7/2012 3:31:29 PM (No. 9054094)
Now I understand why the unions, and government, want to include TSA workers. They will fit right in...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MrYules, 12/7/2012 3:35:02 PM (No. 9054096)
The question is: what happens to these "protectors of the People"? Are they tried like "ordinary" citizens and imprisoned, or do they receive favorable treatment because of their exalted status?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JLoophole, 12/7/2012 3:47:20 PM (No. 9054111)
Well...the best i can give them is that at leadt they ran a sting operation.
Sounds like they need to send the TSA folk through security screening before they leave work.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 12/7/2012 3:48:42 PM (No. 9054115)
#4, I suspect he will slither off into the maze of affirmative action government jobs where prior government work and his color will put him at the head of the line. His seniority probably will go with him. Being special, his record probably will be scrubbed clean.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
veritas, 12/7/2012 3:50:59 PM (No. 9054123)
Wouldn´t it be easier and faster to just list the TSA employees who haven´t stolen -- ´scuse me, who haven´t been caught stealing from taxpayer-travelers yet?
FTA: "TSA holds its employees to the highest ethical standards and has zero tolerance for misconduct in the workplace," said Castelveter in a statement.
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha--EEP! Ooh, I think I hurt myself.
Looking at this... fellow, something Hillary said comes to mind. So, Hillary, if we "Federalize," we´ll get -- what was it you promised? That was available no other way but by making the screeners Fed employees?
#1: Think further about what you suggest. Should honest taxpayers have to go through all the grief, the [probably uninsured] loss of the device [setting aside all the other items stolen by TSA perps for now], and much more to protect themselves from the depredations of Federal "screeners" whose very salaries those taxpayers provide? Makes no sense at all to me. IMHO, it´s an utter outrage.
Oh -- and it took an outside, private company to bring the extent of TSA criminality so much exposure the Feds could no longer bury it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pineledger, 12/7/2012 3:51:31 PM (No. 9054125)
They got my husband´s Tiffany pill box years ago. Don´t let anything out of your sight.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lazyman, 12/7/2012 3:56:25 PM (No. 9054136)
The problem is that if you have the money to get on a
plane you are not part of the community that needs to be organized.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
OhMy, 12/7/2012 4:06:27 PM (No. 9054158)
Privatize the whole TSA operation with many smaller agencies who will hold their employees responsible.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lylacat, 12/7/2012 4:09:09 PM (No. 9054162)
Get rid of the TSA. These ignorant people definitely do not make anyone safer. They are ignorant, arrogant, and they are thieves. Airport security should be by private companies, and then they can be fired for bad behavior. I fly a whole lot less just so I do to deal with these morons.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
dipi, 12/7/2012 4:59:14 PM (No. 9054225)
Don´t see what the problem is here. He is black and he is entitled. I believe obama calls it redistribution.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
manitouman, 12/7/2012 5:10:10 PM (No. 9054245)
Big deal.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
skedaddle, 12/7/2012 5:15:22 PM (No. 9054254)
If 0bama had a son would he look like this guy?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cartcart, 12/7/2012 5:32:41 PM (No. 9054289)
I am sure he "didn´t mean nothing by it" and will ask for leniency, consideration of his color rather than character. His union will back him up because of the entrapment. He was only doing this to start up his own investigation of theft, right?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Now or Never, 12/7/2012 6:01:44 PM (No. 9054323)
KNEW BEFORE LOOKIN´
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Griller1, 12/7/2012 6:11:13 PM (No. 9054330)
Accused. Will walk. No punishment for TSA scum.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Mazeman, 12/7/2012 6:21:38 PM (No. 9054336)
The only reason there are news stories about iPad theft is because they´re trackable, so the agents get caught.
This is only the tip of the ice berg. These TSA crooks need to be submitted to the same surveillance as their victims.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
judy, 12/7/2012 6:26:01 PM (No. 9054340)
Sounds like apples´ app ..find my i pad ...is working better than the TSA.....
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
uno, 12/7/2012 7:18:29 PM (No. 9054393)
Another credit to the race...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Bobn.T, 12/7/2012 7:49:46 PM (No. 9054432)
About five years ago in Las Vegas, they stole a gold bracelet from my checked baggage.
TSA = Thieves Stealing from America. They´re all a bunch of thieves or criminals.
But just remember: they´re keeping the airplanes safe for you to fly on.
Do you think any of them could be bribed to let bad guys and bad thinks on the planes? Let;s hope not.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Bobn.T, 12/7/2012 7:51:21 PM (No. 9054435)
Fat fingered my typing. "...bad things..."
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 12/7/2012 10:53:02 PM (No. 9054602)
If they are protecting US from terryist, who is protecting US from them ?
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