Too much weird stuff. Weird stuff I discounted several months ago when attempting to explain the Devonte Tisdale mystery.
Turns out the TSA conducted a sting at CLT-Douglas airport in November just days after Tisdale somehow got access to a plane bound for Boston. TSA successfully bribed a JetBlue employee with $100 to secret a package onto a plane.
This new info puts all kinds of things in play, when we frame it correctly.
Last month News14 ran with unnamed sources who claimed that Tisdale gained access to the plane not from the broken airport perimeter fencing, but from inside the airport.
That claim frankly seemed too far-fetched to be true. It meant that airport employees were engaged in a conspiracy to get stuff — possibly people — onto planes secretly.
The only possible motive would be cash — and that is smuggling. We now have two ends that need to be tied together: Proof that airport employees were willing to smuggle packages onto planes and a dead body of someone who smuggled themselves onto a plane.
But that is not the least of it.
Someone in Boston does not trust Jerry Orr and the CLT investigation of the Tisdale incident. Otherwise this TSA sting report would not have been leaked to a Boston TV station. In fact, authorities in Boston seem to be driving the investigation much more so that Charlotte officials or CMPD.
Did CMPD even know about the TSA sting before it was reported? Did CMPD ask TSA about such security lapses?
For some reason CMPD is waiting to find out if the grease on Tisdale’s clothing is a geniune CSI: Charlotte match for aircraft grease. In other words, CMPD is investigating the theory already put forth by Boston investigators. What if the results are inconclusive? Then Tisdale didn’t really fall from a plane that he got on in Charlotte?
As the TSA sting shows the great unknown is the state of security at the Charlotte airport. Why isn’t CMPD focusing on that? Or have they — and didn’t like what they found? Does that explain the sudden disclosure of a two-month old federal sting operation?
There are just so many unanswered questions floating around this matter — more than ever before.