TSA Worker Avoids Prison After Stealing Travelers’ Laptops

[The Straight Story]

TSA Worker Avoids Prison After Stealing Travelers’ Laptops

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A 37-year-old former Transportation Security Administration officer has been sentenced to three years’ probation for stealing laptop computers from passengers’ luggage at Philadelphia International Airport.

Federal prosecutor Arlene Fisk says defendant Troy Davis, upset about a demotion and lost pay, admitted stealing five laptops and a Sony Playstation.

Fisk says Davis actually used the surveillance equipment for his own greedy purpose.

“He put the luggage through special machines to see whether there was any explosives or anything of concern in the luggage,” she told KYW Newsradio. “When he saw that there was something of value in the luggage, he took out the computers or the games.”

Judge C. Darnell Jones says he considered the defendant’s military service — the US Navy veteran served in Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm, and in Somalia. And Davis is still recovering from injuries from a near-fatal car wreck a year ago.

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2010/12/17/tsa-worker-avoids-prison-after-stealing-travelers-laptops/

[JVS]

1. So having been in the military is an excuse to steal?

[Tunkamerica]

2. No. Being in a car accident is.

[saigon68]

9. Another Thug above the Law

Meanwhile a welfare mother caught shop lifting goes to prison

[panzerfaust]

13. For shoplifting two purses, an Oklahoma City woman was sentenced Friday to life in prison.

3/21/2009 http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20090321_11_0_Frsolf298853

A judge imposed the unusually long term after learning the shoplifter is a heroin addict who has been punished almost 30 other times for theft-related crimes. The stealing dates to 1971, records show.

"It’s past time to say, ‘Enough is enough,’” Oklahoma County District Judge Ray Elliott said. "She needs to be warehoused for the rest of her life. She’s a one-person crime wave.”

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The judge also revoked Rodriguez’s probation on a 2000 larceny case, meaning she has 19 more years to serve in prison after completing her life term.

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The judge criticized legislators who complain state prisons areovercrowded because of inmates sent there for crimes such as larceny. He called Rodriguez a "poster child” for why it’s OK to send thieves to prison.

[bemildred]

4. Hey, he's very upset about it. nt

[Owl]

5. +1

[LisaL]

3. I feel so silly.

Here I was, complaining about TSA's "surveillance equipment," when this guy clearly put it to good use.:sarcasm:

[lib2DaBone]

6. Homeland Security...The gift from George Bush that keeps on giving...

"Small-government fiscal-conservative" Republicans created the largest Bureaucratic cash drain EVER in the history of America.

[MrsBrady]

7. according to the Judge, per the article - if he screws up probation he's going to jail

I wonder what his probation sentence is?

[GoneOffShore]

8. A Smurf avoids jail?

There's a surprise.

The TSA - keeping us safe from snow globes and breast milk.

[Blue_Tires]

10. how big of a fuck-up do you have to be to get DEMOTED in the TSA??

[LiberalFighter]

11. How much could he be demoted in the TSA?

[Anakin Skywalker]

12. He got demoted to Thief Petty Officer!

[saigon68]

14. lol