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01-11-2005 07:32 PM |
Feel Secure? TSA Screener swipes and swallows a passenger's pills
Who is the TSA keep us safe from?!?
http://www.kxly.com/common/getstory_41690.asp
Surveillance Video Catches TSA Theft
Police released new surveillance video of a Spokane TSA Screener convicted of stealing drugs out of passenger's luggage.
Screener Wendy Swason's co-workers turned her in for swiping pain killers out of the bags she was supposed to be searching for explosives.
A hidden camera caught her in the act of stealing and even swallowing a passenger's pills.
Now the airport is bringing in explosive detection machines that search for compounds to power bombs, which mean fewer bags will have to be opened by screeners.
Spokane International Airport Spokesman Todd Woodard says, "it's the same technology you see in places like New York, Dallas, Miami, and some of the largest airports in the country and we think that using that technology will provide a safer environment for our travelers as well as providing a much more efficient system."
The airport plans to have five of the detection systems up and running by the busy Easter travel season.
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