Four Baggage Screeners Fired at Newark Liberty

Four baggage screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport were fired and several others suspended after a lengthy investigation into lax security procedures at one of the nation’s busiest hubs, Policymic reported Friday.

An investigation by the federal Transportation Security Administration began in 2011 after the agency heard complaints of items being stolen from checked luggage in Terminal B, but quickly grew into a probe of haphazard inspections at the airport where one of four airliners were hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001. 

There have been notorious security foul-ups at Newark Liberty, including a few weeks ago, when an undercover inspector managed to pass through two checkpoints with a fake bomb hidden inside his pants, Policymic reported.