{"id":1396,"date":"2006-08-09T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/dont_worry_its_not_like_this_is_critical_infrastructure_or_anything.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T18:43:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:43:16","slug":"dont_worry_its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/dont_worry_its.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Worry, It&#8217;s Not Like This Is Critical Infrastructure Or Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking on the bright side, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/441902p-372216c.html\">one also could say that the system worked<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A fugitive wanted by federal immigration and customs agents somehow slipped through background checks and got a job making repairs inside the Midtown Tunnel, authorities said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Amaya was busted only after an MTA Bridges and Tunnels officer noticed Amaya&#8217;s work ID had expired and checked his name for outstanding warrants, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This guy could have easily slipped through the cracks and gained entry to very sensitive areas,&#8221; said Joe Mauro, president of the Bridge and Tunnel Officers Benevolent Association. &#8220;This may seem inconsequential, but imagine the implications if this guy was a terrorist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officer Christopher Schatz stopped the 44-year-old construction worker as he tried to use an expired work ID to get into a ventilation room, where air is pumped into the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>When Schatz asked Amaya for another ID, Amaya gave him a photocopy of a driver&#8217;s license and then a forged driver&#8217;s license, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Schatz &#8212; who is assigned to a counterterrorism post created after 9\/11 &#8212; quickly discovered that Amaya was wanted by the feds for unspecified crimes. The feds are now planning to deport Amaya to his native El Salvador.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking on the bright side, one also could say that the system worked: A fugitive wanted by federal immigration and customs agents somehow slipped through background checks and got a job making repairs inside the Midtown Tunnel, authorities said yesterday. Carlos Amaya was busted only after an MTA Bridges and Tunnels officer noticed Amaya&#8217;s work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}