A WBZ I-Team investigation is raising serious questions about security at Logan Airport in Boston. Sources tell the I-Team Massachusetts State Police troopers assigned to conduct security sweeps of airport terminals were repeatedly failing to do them.
In one case, a trooper reported completing a sweep, but surveillance video showed he never entered the area. As a result, a passenger was left overnight in a restricted area. That incident prompted the state police to open a larger investigation.
Troopers supposed to check restricted areas
State troopers are supposed to check secure and restricted areas at Logan Airport every night after the last flights leave. Todd McGhee, a former state trooper, was assigned to the airport. “The troopers are assigned there to do the security sweeps. It’s not just presence, the uniformed presence for deterrence, it’s to ensure that things are buttoned up after the last flight comes in, after TSA is no longer manning those gates, and that there’s no one who is left behind there,” McGhee said.
But sources say on Oct. 4, a passenger was left behind in the secure area. An airport employee gave that passenger back his checked luggage. A serious potential security breach since guns can be put in checked bags but are not allowed in carry-on luggage…