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Team Sergeant
07-24-2011, 15:01
TSA agent "How I make extra money being a Transportation Security Administration Agent!!!!!!
Los Angeles TSA Officer Indicted on Theft Charges
Published July 24, 2011
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES – Federal prosecutors say a Transportation Security Administration officer has been indicted on theft charges related to items that were stolen from luggage at Los Angeles International Airport.
Thirty-eight-year-old Paul Yashou of Torrance was named in a five-count indictment Friday that charges him with two felony and three misdemeanor counts.
The U.S. attorney's office says the indictment alleges that Yashou stole four watches, ranging in value from $1,000 to $15,000, and a $1,000 pre-paid debit card.
Yashou was arrested last month at his home after an investigation revealed the $15,000 watch had been sold to a jewelry store that had tried to set the item on eBay.
Yashou is scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 3.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/24/los-angeles-tsa-officer-indicted-on-theft-charges/#ixzz1T3hk5ZS0
This brings up a good point. There are people who lock the zippers on their suitcases thinking they are secure. Well nothing is further from the truth. You can lock it and still find one of those TSA flyers in it saying it has been inspected and they never have to open the lock.
What they do is take an ordinary ink pen and push it between the zipper. This separates the zipper allows them to go through your bag. Then to close it they just slide the zipper pull around it again and it closes. Thieves do the same thing so NEVER put valuables in your luggage.
Anyone that is going to leave a $15K watch in their luggage deserves to have it stolen.
Oldrotorhead
07-24-2011, 18:16
Anyone that is going to leave a $15K watch in their luggage deserves to have it stolen.
If some traveler has a brain fart and deserves to be robbed by a Federal Employee maybe that Federal Employee deserved to be lynched by irate Tax payers.
.:eek:
ddoering
07-24-2011, 18:54
Anyone that is going to leave a $15K watch in their luggage deserves to have it stolen.
Why would any person deserve to be ripped off? I guess you should have to lock your house or deserve to get robbed.
I guess I should have put that in pink, however, it irritates me when people do not think and do not take basic, common sense measures to deter things such as this. A woman leaving a purse laying on the front seat of her car while she goes in the store; someone leaving their cell phones or wallets in their car at night and not locking the car; a woman leaving her purse in the shopping cart while she walks away from it to get something; leaving a lot of cash laying out when someone you don't know comes to your house with a friend; etc.; etc. People should know better than this. When they don't think, I don't have that much sympathy for them.
Shadow1911
07-25-2011, 09:03
It always worries me when I travel with weapons. I hate checking in a valuable hand gun. On top of that you have to let them know it's there so they can steal it.
I wouldn't ever put anything else of value in luggage, but there is no choice with a weapon.
Ambush Master
07-25-2011, 09:12
You're actually safer with a Declared Weapon than not!! The Airlines keep a very short leash on bags containing Weapons & Ammo!!
The Reaper
07-25-2011, 16:27
You're actually safer with a Declared Weapon than not!! The Airlines keep a very short leash on bags containing Weapons & Ammo!!
And yet they disappear anyway.
TR
And yet they disappear anyway.
TR
Wow! That's scary! :eek:
Wow! That's scary! :eek:
http://texasfred.net/archives/7073
The above is a story of the Israeli PM security detail having their checked guns stolen.
I know a couple stories of professional knifemakers who had their custom knives stolen on their way to a show.
Last time I flew I got randomly searched, tested for explosives, and bumped a flight, even though they found no explosives, I wasn't carrying anything more suspicious than a surefire, and I had two CCW permits on me (you think they'd maybe search people that don't volunteer for background checks more thoroughly!)
The time before that I set off alarms by putting my computer in my checked luggage (full tower gaming systems apperantly look like explosives. I can accept that. I can't accept them walking off with my precision screwdriver set.)
No more flying for me until the TSA goes away.
I just got back from a trip where I flew into Casper, WY. Going out and returning home I had a declared handgun in one of my bags.
On the return flight, in my bag not carrying the handgun, I had four small gift-wrapped boxes of relatively inexpensive souvenirs purchased as gifts for family that couldn't be carried on to the plane. The wrapped boxes had hand-crafted wooden pens that incorporated a fake cartridge casing and bullet as the tip. The bullet part made the pens a no-go as a carry-on item for TSA, of course...
An identical pen I bought for myself was simply wrapped in tissue paper next to the wrapped boxes.
I watched TSA scan my bags and load them onto the conveyor belt in Casper.
When I got home and opened my bags this past weekend, the paper-wrapped pen was missing. The other gift boxes were fine. The handgun and ammo was all there in the other bag. There was no TSA inspection notice in either bag.
Somewhere between Casper, DEN, and ORD, someone stole 1 pen. It makes no sense to me why the thief wouldn't take them all...
1stindoor
07-26-2011, 12:12
Somewhere between Casper, DEN, and ORD, someone stole 1 pen. It makes no sense to me why the thief wouldn't take them all...
That would be impolite and selfish...the thief had no way of knowing if someone else wanted to take one on one of your other flights.
I've "lost" several knives over the years after making the mistake of putting them in my luggage.
AngelsSix
07-26-2011, 18:27
I have been to Arizona and back (as TS can attest) with my guns and have had nary an issue. Of course, that was before budget cuts and idiots that couldn't cut it in the military flooding the TSA. I would not check anything of value these days. If I needed to be somewhere I needed my gun, I would drive or I wouldn't go.
As for the comment about people putting things of value in their luggage, I agree. As much as it has been in the news about airport workers of all sorts stealing stuff from people's luggage, there should be no reason to put valuables in your luggage. Ship it or leave it.
GratefulCitizen
07-26-2011, 19:12
Ship your stuff to your destination through UPS.
You'll know where it is every time it's scanned, down to the minute.
Thievery is taken very seriously at UPS.
Loss prevention will set up suspected thieves, get them nailed for a felony, and do their best to wreck their future employment options.
Loss prevention will set up suspected thieves, get them nailed for a felony, and do their best to wreck their future employment options.
We need loss prevention in Congress - and the WH - fast. ;)
Streck-Fu
07-26-2011, 19:26
You're actually safer with a Declared Weapon than not!! The Airlines keep a very short leash on bags containing Weapons & Ammo!!
Flying between Norfolk and Tampa in 2006, my handgun was stolen from a locked bag. Tampa police and DHS had me file paperwork but no one seemed too worried bout it. Eventually, the airline paid full retail for it and the accessories I had with it.
So if you ever see a Glock 23 serial number FBG229 for sale, call the Tampa police.
Flying between Norfolk and Tampa in 2006, my handgun was stolen from a locked bag. Tampa police and DHS had me file paperwork but no one seemed too worried bout it. Eventually, the airline paid full retail for it and the accessories I had with it.
So if you ever see a Glock 23 serial number FBG229 for sale, call the Tampa police.
The bear spray I almost used on my trip shipped home from FEDEX ground only and made it home intact one business day later than my bags.
I didn't have the opportunity to ship my purchased items as I bought them the night before I left, and I left before the FEDEX/UPS stores opened.
FEDEX/UPS seem like a better and better deal as I travel more again, but I remember when my close-to-me great-uncle's laptop disappeared en route to Florida.
Insurance made everything right with the laptop (minus the data entry cost), but I shudder at the thought of a firearm of mine ending up in the wrong hands.
If only TSA and FAA would give me the same benefit of the doubt that HR 218 did a few years before.... I wold gladly sit through the Flying while Armed class as often as the FAA wantedto be allowed to carry my weapon.
Why would any person deserve to be ripped off? I guess you should have to lock your house or deserve to get robbed.
I encourage intruders ;)
Seriously, character and integrity are traits that are becoming as uncommon as common sense.
Think TSA needs to do more undercover tests on their people, it's becoming a widespread problem. Apparently there are many dead areas w/o surveillance.
Boy I feel safe!