TSA Agent at JFK airport stole $5,000 cash from passenger

Police say a Transportation Security Administration agent stole $5,000 in cash from a passenger's jacket as he was going through security at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the latest in a string of thefts that has embarrassed the agency.

Alexandra Schmid took the cash from the jacket of a Bangladeshi passenger as it went along an X-ray conveyor belt at around 8pm Wednesday, said Port Authority spokesman Al Della Fave.

'In viewing the surveillance video, we observed her removing the currency from the victim's jacket pocket,' Mr Della Fave said.

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Nice these are the people playing with your kids junk while your family is trying to go to Hawaii on a nice family vacation. Not only do you have to hand over your stuff you're sexually assaulted by some stranger and now you have to make sure they don't pick your pocket in the process. What a joke - What's are they thinking - They take your water and drinks as they might be an explosive and they throw it in the trash can next to where they are working and that going to keep you safe if it blows up. You can't even take nail clippers on a plane anymore. Really how long would it take to kill someone with nail clippers with people holding you back, what has the world come to.