By Michael Grabell ProPublica A new report from the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security is likely to fan rather than extinguish the debate over the safety of X-ray body scanners deployed at airports across the country. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and other lawmakers have called on the Transportation Security Administration to conduct…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com What part of “don’t bring guns to the airport” don’t people understand? It still fails to amaze. As part of an occasional story on the issue, we report that 31 people from Jan. 23 to Jan. 29 were caught at airport checkpoints in the U.S. with guns, according to the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Two TSA officers based out of John F. Kennedy Airport in New York are trading their jobs for jail sentences, reports the Mail Online. Coumar Pesad, 44, and Davon Webb, 31, admitted to stealing $40,000 in cash from a single checked bag, the paper reports. Persad saw money in the bag…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Sgt. 1st Class Trey Scott Atwater, the military man who shut down a Texas airport over the weekend when he tried to carry on explosives to a flight, said he didn’t know the prohibited materials were in his bag, FayObserver reports. Atwater had not used his carry-on bag since bringing it…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A member of the US military has been charged after being detained at a Texas airport over the weekend for attempting to board a plane with explosives wrapped in military-grade wrapping, the Associated Press reports. Trey Scott Atwater was stopped by security at the Midland International Airport around 9 a.m. on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Holiday travelers this month were packing more than presents when heading off to the nation’s airports. The Transportation Security Administration reported that 31 firearms were found at airport checkpoints the week of Dec. 19 to Christmas Day. The weekly TSA tally of guns found at airport checkpoints normally ranges during the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethwire.com Two elderly women claimed this week that TSA employees, during private screenings at John F. Kennedy International Airport, embarrassed them by asking them to lower their pants and expose private items to the officers, reports WPLG. One claims she was made to lower her pants and underwear so her back brace…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Transportation Security Administration employee in uniform flashed his badge and apparently more at a woman near his Manassas, Va., home. Harold Glenn Rodman, a 52-year-old airport screener, has been charged with abduction with intent to defile, aggravated sexual assault, forcible sodomy and object sexual penetration, reports CNN. According to police, a…
