MaggieD
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A convicted TSA security officer says he was part of a "culture" of indifference that allowed corrupt employees to prey on passengers' luggage and personal belongings with impunity, thanks to lax oversight and tip-offs from TSA colleagues."It was very commonplace, very," said Pythias Brown, a former TSA officer at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey who admits he stole more than $800,000 worth of items from luggage and security checkpoints over a four-year period.
"It was very convenient to steal," he said.
Speaking publicly for the first time after being released from prison, Brown told ABC News his four-year-long crime spree came to an end only because he tried to sell a camera he stole from the luggage of a CNN producer on E-bay but forget to remove all of the news networks' identifying stickers.
"It became so easy, I got complacent," Brown said.
Convicted TSA Officer Reveals Secrets of Thefts at Airports - ABC News
The one thing this article doesn't tell us is how much time this guy got. TSA was founded in 2001. His crime spree spread over 4 years, so I'm assuming they caught him in 2005-6. Seven or eight years for $800,000. Sound fair?