Jose Salgado, TSA Agent, Arrested In Child Porn Crackdown

An agent with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been suspended from his job after he was arrested for allegedly having and sharing images of child pornography.

NECN reports that Jose Salgado, a TSA screener at Logan airport in Boston, was collared as part of a massive child pornography crackdown in Massachusetts.

"These people are your neighbors," Marian McGovern, Massachusetts state police colonel, said at a press conference. "These people look just like everyone else, and they're doing these things under the cover of their own homes."

Salgado was one of 55 people nabbed and accused of various child pornography-related charges, according to the Boston Herald.

"This is just a drop in the bucket,” state police Sgt. Michael Hill of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force told the Herald.

News of Salgado's arrest comes just one month after ABC News reported that a former TSA agent in Maryland was indicted on federal child pornography charges.

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Comments

[caimbra]

11:33 AM on 04/13/2012

Alex Jones was right.....

[Parade Keegan]

03:45 AM on 04/13/2012

Great, IMO the TSA now has employees with the morals of some ministers and priests.... Is no place "freak free"?

[maybesomeday]

06:22 AM on 04/12/2012

Congrat's to the investigators who worked this case and are cleaning up the proverbial streets of these monsters who harm children.

I don't care what profession someone is in when you have a personal computer at home loaded up with these kind of images you need to be locked up. Although I already know they will take a plea and get a pat on the wrist.

The crimes against our children should be crimes with no plea deals. Lock them up from society because they are never going to change and the incredible harm that is done to these children should far outweigh any rights these monster's should be allowed to ever have again.

[Sumz54]

04:08 AM on 04/12/2012

That's probably why he took the job, gross. Wonder if he got any of those images from the body scanners.............

Also, things like this are the reason that the TSA needs to be stripped of most of their powers. Low training jobs with way too much authority to touch and look at people inappropriately.

[mismatchedhair]

12:20 AM on 04/26/2012

Forget the body scanners, I'm more concerned about all the kids he had the authority to take aside for "additional screening" via groping--I mean, a patdown. I bet being a TSA agent is every pedophile's wet dream.

[rewith85man]

03:24 AM on 04/12/2012

It makes me realize that we should watch out for "normal" people more often than those who are obviously suspicious.

[VA Jill]

11:30 PM on 04/11/2012

Doesn't surprise me. I once saw a TSA agent (male) pat down an 8-year-old girl who was terrified and crying....and this was BEFORE the current batch of screening rigamarole. He really acted like a pedo.

[CMR1188]

11:01 PM on 04/11/2012

Why can't we send pedophiles to their own island where they can fend for themselves? They do irreparable damage to our next generation. It has been proven untreatable. Aside from lining them up and shooting them all at once, the only logical and cost effective way to deal with them is to send them to their own special place where they can rot in their own evil.

[Tim Day]

10:07 PM on 04/11/2012

TSA...And this is the guy that pats kids down ? This is so far beyond wrong..

[VoiceOfReality2012]

09:47 PM on 04/11/2012

No surprise here. Ive seen too many videos of them fondling little kids. Think thats where all of the banished priests went to work at.

[twellar]

11:04 PM on 04/11/2012

Old saying in the Marines buddy, "when you find a fag bouncer you find a fag", Your remark about priests is stupid and shortsighted about a major problem in divorced and remarried situations as well as in the general society and Im not even a Catholic but I think I know what you are its pretty obvious and I wouldn't want my kids around you.

[VoiceOfReality2012]

11:46 PM on 04/11/2012

Lots of old sayings in the marines, buddy. I worked with many former "seamen" during my years in the marine and shipyard industries. Most are like YOU, big on opinions and small on facts. FACTS ARE that child molesting is condoned in the cathilic church. Facts have shown that. After being reported, the catholic church simply moved the molesting priests to different churches time and time again. Hundreds of different priests. Moved from church to church over decades. Its a FACT. Its in court records. The catholic church as paid out hundreds of millions to victims.

[twellar]

09:38 AM on 04/12/2012

Yes this is a major social issue that has not been properly understood until recently. It is not a catholic issue, but it has been a problem in that church as well as in the public school system, in sports, scouts, family life and the list goes on to include every area of society.Your short sighted remarks betray you. I often wonder what kind of social good someone like you ever accomplish. Im sure the answer is 0. To state that any major social organization condones child abuse surfaces your prejudice. I'm sure your prejudices are many and that your personal relationships are disastrous and few.

[johnny1111]

09:41 PM on 04/11/2012

Another Reason to Disband the TSA.

[figmoe]

09:14 PM on 04/11/2012

Here is another government agency that needs to be flushed along with the EPA and Federal Reserve among others. Your tax dollars at work folks

[johnny1111]

09:41 PM on 04/11/2012

Bush Created the TSA, EPA is needed to control Business Polluters.

[JPETERB]

12:10 AM on 04/12/2012

The Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913, over New Years break with less than 70% of Congress even voting. It was secretly written by the same Eastern bankers the act empowered to privately regulate US currency. Most people did not, and still do not, know that fact.

The Birth of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank - How usury destroyed ...
► 71:12► 71:12

video.google.com/videoplay?docid...

The law creating the EPA was proposed, written and passed by Congress and signed by Richard Nixon in 1970. Public opinion in the US was virtually unanimous on the need for the national environmental policy the NEPA (act) would generate.

"Controversy about the Federal Reserve Act and the establishment of the Federal Reserve System has existed since prior to its passage. Some of the questions raised include: whether Congress has the Constitutional power to delegate its power to coin money or issue paper money, whether the Federal Reserve is a public cartel of private banks (also called a banking cartel) established to protect powerful financial interests, and whether the Federal Reserve's actions increased the severity of the Great Depression in the 1930s (and/or the severity or frequency of other boom-bust economic cycles, such as the late-2000s recession)." WIkipedia

[Pferdefreund]

09:05 PM on 04/11/2012

Now we know the reason that they want to pat down our children. Absolutely digusting.

[Sherry Nelson]

09:03 PM on 04/11/2012

All I have to say is there are a lot more teachers who are busted for touching, raping, and child porn then there are TSA officers in the whole country.

[Sumz54]

04:11 AM on 04/12/2012

Maybe because teachers are working in plain sight...
I'd bet a lot of money that there are a lot of secret pedo's in the TSA.

[bmitche]

08:51 PM on 04/11/2012

That is one TSA Agent who will be missing when you check in.

[Marie McClusky]

08:21 PM on 04/11/2012

oh yeah we want this guy patting down our little girls

[debraddeatoon]

11:01 PM on 04/11/2012

He would never patt down another little girl.Pervs like this should be put under the jail.