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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

         Female TSA Agent Repeatedly Helped Drug Dealer Sneak Through Security
A TSA agent has admitted helping a man accused of running a drug ring repeatedly evade security and smuggle money through the Buffalo Niagara Airport. Minetta Walker, 43, confessed that she helped the man get around airport security scanners and had warned two of his associates that agents were tailing them.
She would steer them away from security lines where body image scanners or pat-downs might detect large sums of cash or drugs then escort them to their gates to they would not be pulled aside for random inspections. On Friday, in federal court she admitted helping Derek Frank, who is also charged and accused of running a drug operation, of avoiding security checks. As a behavioural detection officer, Walker was trained to observe and analyse human behaviour and had unrestricted access to the airport and its security stations.  Walker was charged with conspiring to defraud the United States and evading security requirements. She faces up to five years in prison.
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