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Suspicious Passenger Bolts From Checkpoint in Miami

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February 26, 2008

Pictured (left to right): LTSO Barbara Del Rey, TSO Clement Duru, STSO Olga Gonzalez, LTSO Norman Washington
Pictured (left to right): LTSO Barbara Del Rey, TSO
Clement Duru, STSO Olga Gonzalez, LTSO Norman
Washington

Yesterday at Miami International Airport, security officers observed a passenger as he approached the security checkpoint for Terminal D. As the passenger presented his boarding pass and identification to trained travel document checkers, he continued to exhibit suspicious behaviors, which caused the behavior detection officers to confer with their colleagues, now closely examining his passport.

These officers, working together, determined that this passenger required an additional level of screening. As they began to direct the passenger to additional screening, the passenger fled, leaving his bag on the x-ray belt as he sprinted for the exit door.

TSA officers followed the passenger, providing police his location. Miami-Dade police officers apprehended Faid Beydoun, 42, after he attempted to elude them by jumping from a second-story roadway and breaking his arm as he landed on the sidewalk below. Beydoun was questioned and then arrested on charges of resisting arrest without violence and disorderly conduct and found to be carrying multiple IDs in several names.

"This event clearly validates TSA's decision to take responsibility for travel document inspection," said MIA Federal Security Director Mark Hatfield, Jr. "Document checking, combined with our security officers performing behavior observation, enhances our detection and disruption capability and gives us another method of catching the bad guys. And we are again witness to the incredible value of our partnership with law enforcement and the unmatched excellence of the Miami-Dade Police Department."