Cops: TSA agent stole $5K from JFK passenger
A passenger goes through the TSA security checkpoint at John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport on Aug. 27, 2003 in New York. / Stephen Chernin/Getty Images
NEW YORK - Authorities say a Transportation Security Administration agent has stolen $5,000 from a passenger as he was going through security at a New York City airport.
Police and the TSA say Alexandra Schmid took the cash from a passenger's jacket as it went along an X-ray conveyor belt at around 8 p.m. Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Police spokesman Al Della Fave says surveillance video showed Schmid wrapping the money in a plastic glove and taking it to a bathroom.
He says the money hasn't been recovered. Police are investigating whether Schmid gave it to another person in the bathroom.
Schmid was arrested on a charge of grand larceny. The name of her attorney wasn't immediately known.
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- Lets put the TSA screeners thru a screening process when they come on and off the job. Oh and they can't leave the screening area with out being re screened in and out. What good for the goose.......
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- Maybe i'm jsut not gifted with this amount of money, but who carries around $5000 in cash?!
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- Some tourists do.
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- Does anyone do a background check on these people.?
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- She was nothing but a money grubbin HO!
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- I'm sure that she was just preemptively seizing money that doubtlessly would have been used to fund terrorist activities. She had to take the money to keep our country safe.
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- I had a very nice belt stolen at the Portland, OR courthouse and their video wasn't working. There are all kinds of thieves going in and then the cops and judges shake you down too for trafic tickets.
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- Schmid seems to be developing the work skills for a career in Congress.
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- Schmid probably thought it was a tip for outstanding service to her country and security.
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