By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
More bad publicity for the Transportation Security Administration.
Three of its agents, along with a police officer and a state trooper were among 20 people arrested in connection with an interstate prescription drug ring that shipped oxycodone to New York and Connecticut from Florida and relayed the profits back to Florida, Reuters news service reported.
Federal authorities in Connecticut on Tuesday announced the arrests.
Reuters reported that suspects Christopher Allen and John Best were TSA agents assigned to the Palm Beach International Airport in Florida, and the third accused TSA agent, Brigitte Jones, worked at Westchester County Airport in New York.
Other charged included Michael Brady, a police officer with the Department of Public Safety in Westchester County, N.Y. and Florida State Highway Patrol Trooper Justin Kolve.
