Police arrested Clayton Keith Dovel, a Transportation Security Administration baggage inspector at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Terminal E, for stealing iPads from checked luggage.
Dovel works in the terminal, but unlike the security checkpoints where passengers are screened, the 35-year-old TSA employee works in an out-of-sight position in what's called the "Resolution Room" where checked luggage is screened by hand.
That's where police say they think Dovel took iPads that travelers packed away.
"For me, it was like zero chance of me thinking I'd get the iPad back, " said Borna Mojra, an architecture student at the University of Texas at Arlington.
It was a long shot, but eight months after his new, 64 gigabyte iPad was stolen, D/FW Airport Police say they found Dovel with it at work.
They also found him with seven other iPads.
Another theft victim actually led police to Dovel.
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