By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A TSA officer is under fire after being accused of secretly videotaping a female coworker in an employee restroom at the Nashville International Airport, WJRN reports. Daniel Boykin, 33, of Murfreesboro also is accused of entering the victim’s Nashville home several times to take information from her computers and electronic devices….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Canadian woman is accused of packing her checked luggage full with two guns, hundreds of rounds of ammo and 33 pounds of marijuana, NBC New York reports. The TSA found the items stuffed into household items like baby wipes, lemonade mix and cat litter. The 24-year-old woman from Scarborough, Ontario,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It has become almost too common: Travelers are caught with guns in the carry-on bags. Even after Sept. 11, when much more innocuous objects were banned from flights, people bring guns to airports, often because they forgot they had the weapon on the them. WCIV reports that a South Carolina man…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and CDC launched an investigation after someone attacked a federal air marshal with a syringe inside the Lagos, Nigeria airport on Sunday, Fox News reports. The air marshal, who was on the public side of the airport, was injected with an unknown substance. He and his team were whisked…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A TSA airport screener is accused of helping a burqa-wearing man rob a bank, the Chicago Tribune reports. Investigators said ATM technician Gildardo Lopez Jr. was disguised as a woman as he went inside an ATM vestibule and emerged 15 minutes later with $168,174 in cash, the FBI alleges. Outside in a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A TSA employee is accused of trying to solicit sex with a mother and her young daughter on Craigslist, the San Francisco Gate reports. George Hristovski, 54, of Sacramento, faces federal child pornography charges after a sheriff’s investigator spotted an ad seeking a mother and daughter for sex. The investigator posed as…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com TSA Administrator John Pistole knows his agency has made some mistakes after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In a candid interview with the Los Angeles Times, Pistole said the TSA’s policies are constantly evolving to protect U.S. travelers. Last year, the TSA announced that it would allow passengers to carry small knives…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Security comes at a cost. Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, passengers have complained about long wait times and intrusive searches. Now the TSA is offering $15,000 for the best ideas for improving those frustrating screening lines, the Los Angeles Times reports. The challenge, said TSA spokesman Ross Feinstein, “is about leveraging…
