Two TSA agents at New York's Kennedy International Airport were busted for stealing cash from checked luggage at the airport, prosecutors told AOL Travel News.
Persad Coumar, 44, and Davon Webb, 30, were arraigned last night on a slew of charges relating to the alleged heists, says Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown. They are both being held on $15,000 bail.
Coumar allegedly X-rayed a piece of baggage bound for Argentina on January 30 and spotted a bag of money, according to a criminal complaint. He called Webb, who was assigned to a baggage belt area for American Airlines in building 56 at JFK and alerted him about the bag with the money, indicating that it probably belonged to a drug dealer, prosecutors said.
Webb searched the bag, found the cash, and marked the bag with tape. He called Coumar and confirmed the cash was inside. The men then met in the baggage area, found the bag wrapped in tape, and "observed what appeared to be approximately $170,000 in the bag,'' the complaint states.
Coumar allegedly grabbed $40,000 in cash, stuffed the money into his clothing and met Webb in an airport bathroom where they divvied up the proceeds of the swiped loot.