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TSA fires employee for stealing $36 from passenger's bag
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said Monday that it has fired one of its employees for stealing money from luggage checked by a passenger.
The employee in question stole $36 from a passenger's bag at Charlotte, N.C.'s Douglas International Airport, the agency said in a blog post on its website.
TSA's blogger Bob Burns said the agency decided to fire the employee despite the fact that the theft was of a "small amount" of money.
"Regardless of how little, no amount of theft by a TSA employee is tolerable," Burns wrote in a short post about the incident. "The agency moved immediately to terminate this individual."
"To add some context, the number of TSA officers fired for theft represents less than one-half of 1 percent of officers that have been employed," he said.
TSA has frequently come under criticism from Republicans in Congress for the conduct of its employees.
