An airport worker has been arrested after he was caught on tape stealing valuables from the bags of passengers at a Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.
David Vang, a 23-year-old baggage handler managed to steal $84,000 worth of goods from the bags of travelers over the course of eight months.
Among some of the goods he made off with include guns, jewelry and watches. Prosecutors say he stuffed the items into his personal backpack. He now faces 11 felony counts of theft.
According to ABC, Brad Garrett, a former FBI special agent said it is difficult to stop this incident from occurring again as airport workers aren't watched at all times.
"You basically can't secure bags because of the sheer volume and the movement of the bags and the handlers ability to have the bags where no one's watching him at any given time," Garrett told ABC.
This isn't the first time an airport worker was busted stealing belongings. Several TSA workers have been fired after they were caught stealing items like iPads from people's bags. Many of these incidents were stings that were set up by investigators.
This wasn't the only incident that made some question airport workers and security recently. According to ABC, a Delta Airlines employee was able to breach security at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Marcelino Aponte, 31, was turned away by the TSA because he didn't have a boarding pass for a flight that he was supposed to board to Orlando. Upon being turned away, he used his airport security badge to get himself through special locked areas. He was able to board his flight without even passing through metal detectors.
According to the TSA, they reacted to the incident within nine minutes but Aponte wasn't detained until his flight landed in Orlando
"The reality is if you work at an airline and you're moving around through the airport from non secure to secure areas, you in effect do not have to go through TSA clearances each time you go in and out of a secure area," Garrett told ABC.
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