Report: Miami airport leads TSA firings for theft

By Keith Laing - 10/24/12 10:42 AM ET

Miami International Airport led all airports in Transportation Security Administration (TSA) firings that were the result of theft from passengers, according to a media report.

ABC News reported that 29 TSA employees were fired at the Miami airport from 2002 to 2011. New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport was second with 27 TSA employee terminations, and Los Angeles International Airport was third with 24 firings.

Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Las Vegas' McCarren International Airport rounded out the top five of the list with 17 and 15 firings respectively.

ABC News recently conducted an undercover investigation at Orlando, Fla.'s Sanford International Airport that discovered a TSA employee took home an iPad it purposely left behind at the airport's security checkpoint. The device was located using a tracking device, the station said.

TSA announced last week it was moving to fire 25 employees at Newark, N.J.'s Liberty International Airport, though the workers there were not accused of theft.