Portland OR Sept 29 2019 A man apparently shot himself inadvertently while struggling with a police officer over a gun at the Portland International Airport baggage claim Friday morning, police said. The handgun belonged to the man, and the Port of Portland officer involved never fired, said Port of Portland Police Chief Jason Wallis. The […]
New York NY Sept 29 2019 A Delta employee was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport Thursday after he was seen taking a bag with approximately $250,000 cash instead of scanning and loading it onto a plane, according to a criminal complaint. Authorities say they have the surveillance video but are not releasing it […]
Birmingham AL September 29 2019 Airline passengers in Birmingham got a wakeup call when they looked out their window before takeoff and saw a naked man on the tarmac. The incident happened around 5:30 a.m. Thursday at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. The naked man told authorities he was robbed somewhere in the area before he […]
Juneau AK September 20 2019 A Transportation Security Administration officer recently saved the life of a passenger at an Alaska airport when she choked on a grape. Brenda Irizarry, the lead transportation security officer at Juneau International Airport, performed the Heimlich maneuver as TSA supervisor Jessie Ashton called emergency services. Irizarry managed to dislodge the […]
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Washington DC September 15 2019 The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is concerned about its employees’ emotional well-being following the suicide of a 40-year-old officer who jumped to his death from a balcony inside the Orlando International Airport earlier this year. The incident “shocked the agency,” and the “accompanying media coverage alerted [it] to the […]
New York City NY Sept 14 2019 A man from Barbados was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Monday after security discovered a gun and 20 loose bullets hidden in a tarlike substance, officials said. Transportation Security Administration officers discovered the .40 caliber handgun and bullets among an unidentified man’s carry-on […]
Washington DC September 3 2019 A U.S. appeals court says travelers can sue the government over mistreatment by federal airport screeners because the agents can act like law enforcement officers, including when they conduct invasive searches. The 9-4 decision Friday by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned earlier rulings and is a setback […]
Las Vegas NV Sept 2 2019 The Transportation Security Administration will use face recognition technology at security checkpoints at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. The good news is you can opt-out. The bad news is that the program in Vegas furthers the TSA’s ongoing efforts to expand biometric technology more broadly. According to a […]
ROCHESTER, N.Y. Aug 18 2019 A bizarre story from the Greater Rochester International Airport: A security worker was caught on tape passing a note with a mean message to a traveler. As a result, she lost her job. That traveler, Neal Strassner, said the worker gave him a note as he was passing through the security […]