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thewayneIt all came apart when a drug smuggler, who was supposed to go to checkpoint 6 to go through security, went to checkpoint 5 which was the terminal that his plane was departing from. People at 6 would have passed him through a secure tunnel and taken him to 5 for his plane.
"A 22-count indictment outlined five incidents where the TSA employees took payments of up to $2,400 to provide drug couriers unfettered access at LAX over a six-month period last year. In all, seven people are facing charges, including Eleby." (Eleby was the smuggler)
The former TSA employees face a minimum of 10 years in prison if convicted.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57421663/transportation-security-administration-drug-smuggling-case-stems-from-airport-mix-up/
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/26/2124232/terminal-mixup-implicates-tsa-agents-in-lax-smuggling-plot
In other joyous TSA news, the TSA did a pat-down on a 4-y/o girl who was crying and screaming and clinging to her grandmother while TSA agents called her an uncooperative suspect.
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/04/26/0352242/tsa-defends-pat-down-of-4-year-old-girl
"A 22-count indictment outlined five incidents where the TSA employees took payments of up to $2,400 to provide drug couriers unfettered access at LAX over a six-month period last year. In all, seven people are facing charges, including Eleby." (Eleby was the smuggler)
The former TSA employees face a minimum of 10 years in prison if convicted.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57421663/transportation-security-administration-drug-smuggling-case-stems-from-airport-mix-up/
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/26/2124232/terminal-mixup-implicates-tsa-agents-in-lax-smuggling-plot
In other joyous TSA news, the TSA did a pat-down on a 4-y/o girl who was crying and screaming and clinging to her grandmother while TSA agents called her an uncooperative suspect.
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/04/26/0352242/tsa-defends-pat-down-of-4-year-old-girl
