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TSA Employee Stole $50k Worth of Electronics

Posted by timothy on from the phew-glad-that's-over dept.

mrquagmire writes "A Continental Airlines employee Monday caught Nelson Santiago-Serrano, 30, stealing an iPad from a suitcase in Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office. Over the past six months, Santiago-Serrano told authorities he stole $50,000 worth of computers, GPS devices and other electronics from luggage he screened, took pictures of them to post for sale online and sold the items often by the time his shift ended."

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  1. TSA: taking freedom so terrorists don't have to by mykos · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being molested, xrayed, shown naked on a screen, and robbed is a small price to pay to keep terrorists from taking away my freedom!

  2. Re:Security FAIL by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to subscribe to your newsletter, but then I thought about how many dead uppity stewardesses would result from armed passengers, and then I really wanted to subscribe to your newsletter.