Add CategoryA former Transportation Security Administration agent, who was accused of tricking a traveller into showing her breasts as she went through airport security in Los Angeles, has pleaded ‘no contest’ to false imprisonment.
Johnathon Lomeli entered the plea to the charge and was sentenced to 60 days in jail and two years of probation, California’s lawyer general’s office announced, according to local reports.
He was also barred from working as a security guard and charged with using fraud or deceit to falsely imprison the woman in June 2019.
According to CNBC, the woman told investigators that Mr Lomeli told her he had to look inside her bra to ensure she wasn’t concealing anything from view at LAX security. It is reported the former security agent also had to hold her pants away from her waist for a check.
The woman then accused the man of taking her to a private room for further security screening, lawyers said.
When alone in the elevator heading to the private screening room, the woman said the man told her he could perform the security screening there and ordered her to lift her shirt and show her breasts, then looked down her pants, she said.
Mr Lomeli allegedly then told the woman she was no longer needed to go to the private screening room with him, and added that she had nice breasts, authorities said.