This is a little old, but it was brought to my attention by radio talk show host Drew_Lane on WTKK-FM Boston yesterday. WTF? The guy used an assistant harbormaster badge and breezed through security.
Stephen Grant accused of impersonating federal agent, making false statements
ROCKLAND —MA
A Rockland man says it was all a misunderstanding over paperwork.
The U.S. Attorney begs to differ.
Rockland resident Stephen Grant, 48, was able to bypass Logan Airport security and board an American Airlines plane by doing little more than showing an assistant harbormaster badge to airport security personnel, then checking the wrong box on a federal form, authorities say.
Grant of 48 Berlin St. was charged Tuesday in U.S. District Court with impersonating a federal agent and making false statements.
Authorities say Grant boarded a flight to San Diego on Jan. 1, 2007, without first passing through security by telling ticketing agents, a state trooper and flight personnel that he was a Department of Homeland Security agent and he was "flying while armed," according to an affidavit filed in court.
Three days later, Transportation Security Administration personnel in San Diego considered having his plane, which was returning to Boston, make an emergency landing, concerned that Grant "might be an imposter who had somehow snuck aboard the plane armed," the affidavit said.
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