TSA agent suspended, charged with stealing cash from disabled woman

[bijou]

A Transportation Security Administration  agent surrendered to authorities on Tuesday and was charged with stealing almost $500 from a wheelchair-bound woman passing through a security checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport.

The TSA has suspended agent Leroy Ray, 44 of Newark, adding yet another incident to a growing list of troubling cases involving agency workers. Officials said 23 TSA agents have been removed or fired since 2007 for stealing items at security checkpoints or from checked baggage.

TSA surveillance cameras caught Ray taking money from a woman's purse after the bag passed through an X-ray machine Feb. 3, according to court documents. Ray allegedly took the bag to another table to search it and removed an envelope containing $300 and then $195 in cash from inside a zipper pocket. ...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/05/tsa_agent_suspended_for_steali.html?hpid=news-col-blog

[vesta111]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/05/tsa_agent_suspended_for_steali.html?hpid=news-col-blog

From another point of view to Bijou.

This is some what like leaving the keys to your car in the ignition.

This woman knowing strangers would be going through her stuff should have stuffed the money in her shoe or inside her sock.

This worker who most likely is under paid was tempted to take money in their sight.

Now because this unthinking woman tempted this worker, the worker is without a job and a way to suport his kids.   

[The Village Idiot]

They will transfer him to the Census