LA Times
Four current and former Transportation Security Administration
screeners have been arrested and face charges of taking bribes and
looking the other way while suitcases filled with cocaine,
methamphetamine or marijuana passed through X-ray machines at Los
Angeles International Airport, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
The TSA screeners, who were arrested Tuesday night and Wednesday
morning, allegedly received up to $2,400 in cash bribes in exchange for
allowing large drug shipments to pass through checkpoints in what the
U.S. attorney in Los Angeles called a “significant breakdown” of
security. - [Full Article]
