ABC News Tracks Missing iPad To Florida Home of TSA Officer

[WillParkinson]

ABC News Tracks Missing iPad To Florida Home of TSA Officer

By MEGAN CHUCHMACH (@megcourtney) , RANDY KREIDER and BRIAN ROSS (@brianross)
Sept. 27, 2012

In the latest apparent case of what have been hundreds of thefts by TSA officers of passenger belongings, an iPad left behind at a security checkpoint in the Orlando airport was tracked as it moved 30 miles to the home of the TSA officer last seen handling it.

Confronted two weeks later by ABC News, the TSA officer, Andy Ramirez, at first denied having the missing iPad, but ultimately turned it over after blaming his wife for taking it from the airport.

The iPad was one of ten purposely left behind at TSA checkpoints at major airports with a history of theft by government screeners, as part of an ABC News investigation into the TSA's ongoing problem with theft from passengers.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/abc-news-tracks-missing-ipad-florida-home-tsa/story?id=17331937#.UGTcAK7F3Z8

[Robb]

1. I'm actually kind of impressed.

They "left behind" 10 iPads, with names and numbers on the back of them, and 9 of times the TSA officer took the time to contact the "owner". One guy boosted one iPad.

That's better odds than the mall, I expect.