Hartsfield screener charged with theft (watch your wallet alert!)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | March 2, 2003 | Brenden Sager - Staff

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Hartsfield screener charged with theft

Brenden Sager - Staff
Sunday, March 2, 2003

A Transportation Security Administration screener was charged with theft Friday morning after he took money out of a passenger's wallet at a security checkpoint at Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta police said Saturday.

Louis Marshall faces a charge of theft by taking, said Atlanta Police spokesman John Quigley. Police did not have his age or date of birth.

According to a police report, a man from Jacksonville had placed his wallet in a plastic bucket as he passed the rest of his belongs through an X-Ray machine. A woman who had passed through the checkpoint ahead of the man saw "A TSA employee pick up a wallet and remove money from it," the police report said. "The suspect looked up and saw the witness looking at him and wadded the money up in his hand and walked away."

The two contacted police, who arrested Marshall. Atlanta police had no information Saturday night on where Marshall was being held.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Traveler's beware!

[martin_fierro]

Sounds like Mr. Marshall's due for a full body cavity search.

[TheBattman]

No way - these TSA folks are suppose to be our travel salvation - keeping us safe from all harm - no way could one of them - especially in Atlanta (no criminals there....) - have stolen from a passenger he is trusted to protect.

[Freedom4US]

I applied for a TSA job, naively thinking my outstanding military experience would make me a shoo-in. Didn't even make it to an interview, no rhyme or reason given. "Sorry, thanks for coming by.."

I had thought that in this post-9/11 world some sort of sanity would have returned to this country. And now I see stuff like this.

[Welsh Rabbit]

I've been to that airport about a hundred times (who hasn't?), and always observed how scummy and thuggish looking most the screeners seemed to be. I've always gotten the rudest treatment from screeners there, more so than any other airport I've visited, which is really saying something.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

He was more straight forward than a politician but less skilled. Maybe he is going to law school in his spare time.

[porgygirl]

your civil service workers protecting you

[porgygirl]

what color are you?, it makes a difference in civil service

[Henrietta]

ping

[Henrietta]

I love it. And the TSA says that it will not responsible for any theft from those bags that we are now being asked to leave unlocked.

[Straight Vermonter]

I applied for a TSA job, naively thinking my outstanding military experience would make me a shoo-in.

If you go through the online application process you can quickly see that the only people they were interested in hiring were those working in airport inspection already.