Allegedly Made Threats Against LAX The Day After He Resigned His Position

A TSA agent that had been previously embroiled in controversy was arrested late Tuesday after allegedly making threats against Los Angeles International Airport the day after he resigned as a scrutiny screener at KLAX.

The LA Times reports that, according to FBI Spokeswoman Laura Eimiller, 29-year-old Nna Alpha Onuoha had worked as a screener at KLAX since 2006, but had recently been suspended from that position.

Onuoha left a resignation letter and a package at the TSA office at the airport after he was suspended Tuesday. The package was inspected and determined to not contain explosives. Instead, it held an eight page letter in which Onuoha gave his side of a story about an earlier incident in which he criticized a 15-year-old girl for what she was wearing as she went through the security checkpoint. The story was recounted by the girl's father on the blog he founded ... "Boing Boing" ... and it went viral. TSA issued an apology for the incident.

Later Tuesday, a man believed to be Onuoha called TSA and said they should evacuate "certain terminals at the airport," according to Eimiller. It was following that threat that he was arrested.

The investigation led authorities to a website that appears to have connections to Onuoha on which several letters described as "rambling" and apparently signed by the suspect were posted. The letters included references to 9/11, and the "end of the world." One also contained statements against the U.S. government and the threat of terrorist activity on the 12th anniversary of the 2001 attacks. "What will unfold on this day and on the days ahead will be greater than 9/11," the letter said.

FMI: www.fbi.gov, www.tsa.gov