Thu, May 20, 2010
TSA Agent Arrested For Stealing Cash From Wheelchair-Bound
Passenger
We're sure you're every bit as tired of reading these kinds of
stories as we are of writing them, but they do seem to keep popping
up on our radar screen. A TSA agent has been arrested and charged
with stealing almost $500 cash from a passenger in a wheelchair who
was clearing a security checkpoint at Newark Airport in
February.
Leroy Ray has been charged with dipping into the woman's purse
as it went through the X-ray machine. WNBC-TV reports that the
criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York says he was
observed on a surveillance tape on February 3 of this year taking
an envelope of cash. Money was also missing from a zippered pocket
of the handbag. When the woman, who reportedly is about 50, noticed
the missing money, she returned to the checkpoint. Ray then
allegedly quickly left the area, leaving his post unattended.
Federal officials say he took the money to the airport's Lost and
Found office.
The screener has been removed from his post, and in a statement
to the station, TSA said it will "move swiftly and decisively to
end the federal career of any employee" who breaks the law while on
the job. TSA says 23 security screeners have been fired for theft
from carry-on or checked baggage since 2007.
Ray's lawyer, who claims to be a long time acquaintance, told
the station that the charges seem to be "out of character for him."
He was released on $1,000 bond.
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