Late for work? Florida TSA agent made up burglary report, deputies say

POLK COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida TSA agent is accused of forging a Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace report back to excuse her from being late to work.

The sheriff’s workplace mentioned Taleta Collier, 34, a TSA agent at an airport in Tampa, was arrested Monday.

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In response to the sheriff’s workplace, Collier was on an worker enchancment plan for extreme tardiness. Collier referred to as forward of her shift on March 20 to let her employer know she was going to be late.

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When she arrived for her shift, deputies mentioned Collier instructed her boss she reported to the sheriff’s workplace {that a} man with a knife tried to interrupt into her mother and father’ automotive. Collier couldn’t present a case quantity or enterprise card of a detective investigating the incident, so she was requested by her supervisor for a duplicate of the report, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.

Collier took a screenshot of a doc and texted it to her supervisor on April 3 however was requested to offer a duplicate for the reason that photograph “was reduce off midway by means of the second web page and no incident description was seen,” a launch mentioned.

The sheriff’s workplace reviewed the photograph and decided it was a pretend report, although Collier used the identify and variety of a present deputy who was on trip on the time the alleged report was filed.

Collier faces fees of felony use of a private ID and uttering a false doc.