TSA allows several JFK passengers to walk through security checkpoint without being screened
BY Thomas Tracy Graham Rayman
Eleven unidentified passengers walked through a security lane without being screened at Kennedy Airport early Monday because the TSA left the area open and unattended, law enforcement sources said.
A security camera captured a metal detector going off three times as the travelers walked through the screening lane, the sources said.
The breach happened around 6 a.m. at Terminal 5, but two hours passed before Transportation Security Administration officials notified the Port Authority Police Department, the sources said.
When they were finally notified, Port Authority cops flooded the terminal equipped with surveillance photos of the travelers, but none of them could be found, the sources said.
A search continues, and a broader investigation into the breach is underway, the sources said.
A TSA spokesman did not immediately respond to an email about the incident.
A Port Authority spokesman could not be immediately reached.
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