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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. Security FAIL by putaro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If they can take something out without getting caught, they could be putting something in. Who would bother with suicide bombs if they can slip it into the luggage?

  2. Re:once again, we ask - by IonOtter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except that Texas chickened out and backed off. The TSA threated to designate the entire state of Texas a "no-fly zone".

    However, it would seem that a few legislators actually used their brains and thought about that for a moment, and decided to push the issue and call the government's bluff.

    I mean, seriously. Who actually believes that the feds would actually BAN all flights in and out of Texas?

    Please...

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  3. Liberty safely removed... by Gription · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More to the point:
    There is no valid reason that I shouldn't be able to demand that my property be inspected in my presence and then be allowed to lock it securely before it is trundled off to the baggage handlers. Even if the TSA was above reproach, baggage handlers are not a group to be blindly trusted either.

    There are events that I used to go to by air that I can't go to anymore. When you are traveling an item that a fingerprint can cause $2000 of damage to either you drive or you don't go.

  4. Re:How many get away with it? by stephanruby · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You should have submitted the papers anyway. It doesn't matter if they're properly filled out, or not. It's not like they were going to reimburse you anyway. You fill out the papers, so that at least, your incident gets recorded in their statistics.

    Often times, authorities try to dissuade you from filling out paperwork, bad statistics make their bosses look bad, but then again, if no incident is ever recorded or filed, it's as if your incident never even officially occurred.