TSA worker accused of assault did jail time for stalking, harassment

By David Edwards
Friday, November 26, 2010 11:23 EST
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A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employee accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Georgia has also spent time in jail for stalking and harassment, an investigation by WTSB-TV has found.

Randall Scott King, 49, was left in critical condition when he attempted suicide Tuesday evening after allegedly abducting, and sexually assaulting a woman, then giving her a suicide note to deliver.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that King, who worked at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, kidnapped the woman from the Lakewood MARTA station Wednesday night.

King allegedly retrained the woman in the parking lot and drove her to his home where the sexual assault is said to have taken place.

The woman said that she was then released and given a suicide note, with instructions for delivery. When a relative took the woman to the Police Department, she was still wearing the “leopard print, novelty handcuffs.”

After a review of Clinton County court records, WTSB-TV’s Tom Regan found that “King was charged with nine offenses of harassment and stalking by communication in January 2001.”

A court clerk told Regan that King pleaded guilty and spent three months in jail for skipping a court appearance.

The WTSB-TV reporter found that misdemeanor harassing and stalking is not included on the TSA’s long list of “disqualifying offenses.”

Brent Brown, a security expert in Smyrna, Georgia, told Regan that King should not have been employed by the TSA.

“This type of misdemeanor, this is harassment,” Brown said. “You’re putting a person in a public area. I would say that would disqualify him for employment.”

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David Edwards has served as an editor at Raw Story since 2006. His work can also be found at Crooks & Liars, and he's also been published at The BRAD BLOG. He came to Raw Story after working as a network manager for the state of North Carolina and as as engineer developing enterprise resource planning software. Follow him on Twitter at @DavidEdwards.
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  • Anonymous

    The dirty bastards either want asswipes to be hired or they are just stupid. I think they are just stupid fucking bastards.

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  • Johnny Warbucks

    Bwaaaa haaaaa…

    The Empire is rotting from the inside out.

  • AnzaSummer

    Geez! Don’t you guys know that he was just keeping her safe!

  • Anonymous

    Aim for the center of mass; empty the clip.

  • Anonymous

    I guess all the brain-damaged vets, instead of being treated as heroes and healed, are being hired by TSA and police farces all over the land. Talk about a recipe for disaster!

  • hauksdottir

    I am not surprised.

    This isn’t a sex crime, but a case of domination and power. From harassing phone calls/emails to pinning down to handcuffing is only an escalation of force… the basic crime is dominating someone else, intimately and completely.

    Before hiring someone for a position where s/he will have power over other people, a government agency especially needs to check for abuse of power.

    A simple checklist isn’t enough. A robot did not hire this man. With unemployment running 10-20% depending upon area of the country, surely the government could have found hundreds of other people without any kind of criminal record to interview for this job?

  • Anonymous

    Hahahahahahahahaha
    My sides hurt!
    Hahahahahahahaha…….

    Don’t ya just love safety?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lon-Warneke/1409625620 Lon Warneke

    I certainly wouldn’t be able to get a job from a legitimate employer who knew anything about competent employment screening. …Evidently TSA is neither a legitimate or professionally managed employer as they’re hiring a staff that they pay McDonalds equivalent, non-livable, wage rates.

  • Anonymous

    Please allow me to shed some light among the unenlightened (including Bob from Prague, an outstanding city as Czech women are surely among the world’s most beautiful – good reason to despise Czech men): Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater USA, does the background checks on TSA employees, last time I checked several years back.

    The reason I checked was that a friend of mine, a combat vet who had held the highest security clearances possible, applied there around 2004 or 2005, and received a rejection within 15 minutes of filling out their paperwork (it was odd, although given his age he fully expected rejection, he did receive extra points for his military services, combat medals, and security clearances).

    In checking several years back, at that time 55 sky marshals had been relieved of duty, some already convicted and jailed for crimes ranging from drug smuggling, human trafficking (as in sex slaves and slave laborers), rape and murder.

    Of those hired that day, instead of my old buddy, four have them returned to jail.

    Yup, they had criminal records for robbery and thievery, and they were convicted once again for pilfering luggage on their TSA jobs.

    Note any possible pattern here?

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  • Anonymous

    Curious the article states “King allegedly retrained the woman in the parking lot” What did he retrain her to do?

  • Anonymous

    Xe probably wanted to hire him for Iraq duty instead.

  • Anonymous

    Heavy security over there at the TSA.

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  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    I’m thinking that anyone who displays a willingness to abuse their authority and treat other humans like garbage gets an A+ rating…while distinguished persons who have served with honor are left out because they represent a risk of exposure. Honorable men cannot be trusted to stay silent…so I’m pretty sure they aren’t welcome in the TSA.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    Christ…I’m a cynical bastard…and this case turns out worse then EVEN I IMAGINED! They actually knew he was a mentally unstable threat to people and hired him anyway? I came to terms with accepting that we’re theoretically ‘protected’ (protection is the polite way of saying ‘abused and herded’) by the lowest paid goon squad of undertrained morons in history…but this reaches a new low. We can’t even manage to screen out the genuine obvious deviant screw ups? Seriously?

  • Anonymous

    It came up at Thanks Giving dinner. WHY! Why are people so against back scatter etc. My answer was simple. Pilots opted out because over a long period going through these machines will toast your ball sack. Radiation exposure is cumulative.

    Also I am totally against the idea of being cattle.

    Lastly I am not scared of brown men in turbins. I am much more afraid of all the assholes on the road every morning who can’t get out of the house early enough to not be driving to work late every morning. This is fricken LA biatches. Crossing the street is dangerous. That doesn’t mean I want my balls frisked every time I go to the store. I am just not that much of a chicken shit.

    However, when I was questioned, “What about the rest of us” chicken shits. I replied park your car son. You can go fry your balls, I’m going to have my fondled.

    Y’all want to line up like cattle, fine, when in Rome. But I’m opting in. I’ll be taking the slap on those gloves and rub my balls bitch line. My tax dollars at work. And I am talking the gay line with the women in the blue gloves son. Money’s worth.

    You all want to live in namby pamby land fine. Rub my balls slowly with the back of your hand. One more time, come on.

  • Anonymous

    Not to worry, folks.
    He´s been given a more suitable occupation with the LAPD.

  • http://twitter.com/jerseyblueboy Karim Walker

    outrageous….IDK what to say…

  • http://www.facebook.com/efahey5 Ed Fahey

    Caveat Imperator……where are the GOP and tea-baggers on this one? Must we rely on the ACLU?

  • Anonymous

    Have you wondered why so many deviants and predators seem to go into the govt. and police, it’s because they are attracted to power that is unchecked and can use that power on others they prey on.

  • DesertSun59

    Yes, then they’ll complain.

  • Anonymous

    The entire TSA thing is reminiscent of Nazi Germany. Your papers please! This country has taken all of Nazi Germanys playbook and uses it on us as we stand by like a bunch of morons claiming we are the freest nation in the world. What a bunch of stupid people we Americans have become! Duh, we’re free!

  • http://www.leosigh.com Leo Sigh

    Well, most Americans. I, however, am not stupid. I could see all this coming after 9/11, which is when I decided to leave America for good. Best decision I ever made. Not only because I now live in one of the most beautiful countries in the world, but the opportunities in Asia for amazing jobs are everywhere.

    America, at this point, is done.

  • Anonymous

    Doctors now sound alarm about the TSA and Communicable diseases. I had posted here a few day ago my concerns about the “pat downs” and lack of changing gloves and lack of masks. This included CDC officials deferring questions to TSA “professionals”.

    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=232457

    P.S. I had served as a Fire Chief for a small volunteer fire rescue some years ago. I am glad that medical professionals are speaking out about this. No one on my EMS would have EVER been able to conduct themselves in such a manner PERIOD!

  • Anonymous

    LOL, the TSA is a JOKE. Biggest WASTE of an agency there is. Period!

    http://www.privacy-web.edu.tc

  • Anonymous

    What isn’t so funny is that I had spoken with the EMS director at the Fire Rescue I once headed and was told that the department now HAS to submit a copy of all run sheets to DHS. This includes medical and insurance information. Privacy is no longer an issue or is it?

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  • Anonymous

    The Constitution states that powers of government are derived from the PEOPLE. Everyone in government and police (which is a government entity) should know this and be reminded of this OFTEN. Their powers are not unchecked, though it may seem like that for a time. But every dog has its day. Even the New Orleans police who thought they could do what they wanted with impunity are being prosecuted. And even Tom Delay was prosecuted and convicted.

  • http://SALON WHITE DRAGON

    TSA is determined to hire every habitual stalker and convicted felon to refine their groping skills on airline passengers, in order to make us more secure. (Who are the grope-ees? America’s middle class! …..without whose airfares these worthless losers wouldn’t have jobs!)

  • http://SALON WHITE DRAGON

    A waste it is…a travesty it is….but I’m finding it hard to laugh.

  • Anonymous

    You people don’t care who we hire, as long as you feel safer. You are willing to sell out your freedom and dignity for emotional comfort – that is what Americans are.

    Consider this disloyal citizens paraphrased statement: “For a sane person in a sane country, the following statement should be true ‘My freely chosen bedmates and doctors are the only ones allowed to see my naked body or touch my genitalia.’”
    Wrong. You people no longer have the right to such dignity and respect here in the USA. This woman might talk big and tough behind the internet, but I guarantee when we tell her to shut up and spread her legs, she’ll fall right in line with the rest of you good little Americans. You people always do, it’s the American way.

    Joke of the day: What kind of a man knowingly surrenders his own daughter to one of us government workers to be molested, standing by passively even as her private parts are fondled while she screams “Daddy Daddy, please help me!” Punch line: an American man. I speak only to you men when I say you gutless cowards will be lining up to hand over your wives and daughters in our airports, it will happen hundreds of time each day across our USA. You had better start explaining to your children that we government employees are allowed to touch their private parts whenever we want; it will make the whole thing a lot less dramatic.
    http://youareproperty.blogspot.com/2010/11/tsa-to-america-shut-your-mouth-and.html

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/5ADH43ZCS3NITAIJKNHHOXH5SY C H

    Along with the public assault that is the pat down, there is another issue. Germs. Just how intimate and how many people are felt up with the same rubber gloves worn by the TSA worker?
    Unless these people are changing gloves with every pat down, the possibility of infection is present. When these gloves are in someones crotch or underwear, just what is the cut off point for germs. Hundreds of people being patted down. Does each worker have a basket with clean rubber gloves? I bet they don’t. They worry about getting germs from us. Well what about the opposite with the same gloves used time after time.

    The government does not do a really good employment check. Remember two years ago the dept of Homeland Security had an executive arrested for child porn. In fact in that department over the last three years there have been several arrests. I do not consider stalking a misdemeanor. Although I guess it depends if you are the one being stalked.

  • dk504

    Welcome to 1936. Bigger, better, but more invasive, feel like Poland yet?

  • Anonymous

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  • Anonymous

    In 2006, the spokesman for DHS was, himself, arrested for child sex crimes:

    “WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department spokesman, Brian Doyle, was held Wednesday on felony charges of sexually preying on a detective posing as a 14-year-old girl through explicit online conversations. He was quickly suspended without pay from one of the nation’s top crime-fighting agencies.

    The arrest of Brian J. Doyle, 55, raised doubts about the ability of an agency responsible for safeguarding the country to ensure the security credentials of its own people. Doyle is accused of 23 felony charges related to sexually graphic conversations with what he thought was a teenage girl, who was in fact an undercover Florida detective. The charges, lodged Tuesday night by the Polk County, Fla., Sheriff’s Department, included 16 counts of sending pornographic movie clips to a minor.

    Authorities said Doyle also sent non-sexual photos of himself. They included one of him in Homeland Security headquarters, wearing an agency pin on his lapel and a lanyard that says “TSA,” which stands for the Transportation Security Administration…..Homeland Security also oversees an Operation Predator unit, which investigates child predators and pornographers.”

  • Anonymous

    The DHS came about because spineless and weak kneed politicians thought it better to vote for this mob mentality “Let’s-Make-Them-Feel-Safer” bullshit without realizing its full impact down the road.

    And today’s America, since 2001 is filled with wimpy people who are afraid to walk out of their own homes without someone holding their hands, and who let this shit happen and let it keep happening.

    It’s time to stand up and tell these motherfuckers we’ve had enough of their scare tactic bullshit, especially that fucking little compromiser in the Oval Office!

    The address is: whitehouse.gov and when the page opens, click “Contact Us” in the upper right-hand corner.

    Then write your senators and congressional rep a letter and tell them to get rid of this worthless and unhealthy tech crap, and the DHS! Then they can work on repealing the Un-Patriot Act.

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