Pilfering TSA Agents
A Transportation Security Administration agent is accused of taking $5,000 in cash from a passenger’s jacket as it moved along the security checkpoint conveyor belt at JFK International Airport on February 1st. A TSA spokesperson said the theft was first reported by another officer on duty at the checkpoint who witnessed the incident. “TSA notified local law enforcement, which arrested the officer, who has been a TSA employee for 4 1/2 years,” Lisa Farbstein said. Police said a surveillance video shows the agent, Alexandra Schmid, wrapping the money in a plastic glove and taking it to a bathroom, where it may have been given to another person. The money has not yet been recovered. Schmid has been charged with grand larceny. Meanwhile, in Texas, the TSA has put one of its Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport employees on administrative leave for allegedly stealing iPads from travelers. Bag screener Clayton Keith Dovel, an employee in the behind-the-scenes “Resolution Room,” where officers inspect checked bags by hand, is accused of stealing at least eight iPads from travelers. The thefts were linked to Dovel when a passenger tracked his missing iPad to Dovel’s home.
A Transportation Security Administration agent is accused of taking $5,000 in cash from a passenger’s jacket as it moved along the security checkpoint conveyor belt at JFK International Airport on February 1st. A TSA spokesperson said the theft was first reported by another officer on duty at the checkpoint who witnessed the incident. “TSA notified local law enforcement, which arrested the officer, who has been a TSA employee for 4 1/2 years,” Lisa Farbstein said. Police said a surveillance video shows the agent, Alexandra Schmid, wrapping the money in a plastic glove and taking it to a bathroom, where it may have been given to another person. The money has not yet been recovered. Schmid has been charged with grand larceny. Meanwhile, in Texas, the TSA has put one of its Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport employees on administrative leave for allegedly stealing iPads from travelers. Bag screener Clayton Keith Dovel, an employee in the behind-the-scenes “Resolution Room,” where officers inspect checked bags by hand, is accused of stealing at least eight iPads from travelers. The thefts were linked to Dovel when a passenger tracked his missing iPad to Dovel’s home.
