FREDERICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: And an update now on that story in Boston out of Logan Airport, where more than a dozen people have been arrested for apparently using phony IDs and Social Security numbers to gain access there. Let's now try again on that telephone line with Bill Delaney. Bill, can you hear me this time?</s>BILL DELANEY, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF: Yes, I can, indeed. As has happened at a number of U.S. airports in recent months, in Seattle, Salt Lake, Las Vegas and Miami, now at Logan airport in Boston, a crackdown on airport employees charged with using false information and documents to obtain secure area access badges. Twenty arrests at Logan of janitors, cleaners and some five pre-departure checkpoint screeners. All of the screeners worked for Argenbright Security, which no longer is allowed to provide security at Logan. The 20, mostly Latin-American and Haitian with one Moroccan, one African. No terror related charges here. The employees only charged with providing false or fraudulent information on forms, a form known as a UA-1 by which employees obtain access badges. Some are also charged with using false Social Security numbers, false visas and other U.S. documents, charges that could lead to five to 10 years in prison. As an airport considered one of the worst security risks before September 11 from -- and an airport, of course, from where two of the airplanes, two of the jets that hit the World Trade Center took off. As this airport now continues a crackdown, officials here say it's making Logan one of the country's safest, if not the safest, airport in the U.S.A. Back to you.</s>WHITFIELD: All right. Thanks very much, Bill Delaney, for that update there on the telephone from Boston. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Airport Employees Arrested for Using Fake IDs