TSA Screeners Indicted For Allowing Narcotics Shipments To Pass Through LAX Security Checkpoints

My 89 year old wheelchair bound Grandmother gets a fist up her butt and strip searched by TSA gorillas but tons of cocaine mules pass right on through.


What a great country we live in!

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Two current and two former Transportation Security Administration screeners were named today in a federal indictment accusing them of taking bribes to allow large drug shipments to pass through X-ray machines and security checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport.

The four defendants, prosecutors allege, conspired to let suitcases stuffed with multi-kilo amounts of cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine get past TSA checkpoints on five occasions last year.

The quartet (and three codefendants) were nabbed as part of a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation that relied on a confidential source who dealt directly with the probe’s targets.

The two current TSA employees charged are John Whitfield, 23, and Capeline McKinney, 25. The former TSA employees named in the 22-count indictment are 27-year-old Joy White, who was terminated last year, and Naral “YS” Richardson, 30, who was terminated in 2010.

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