MIAMI, FL - OCTOBER 04: A TSA agent waits for passengers to use the TSA PreCheck lane being implemented by the Transportation Security Administration at Miami International Airport on October 4, 2011 in Miami, Florida. The pilot program launched today for fliers to use the expedited security screening in Miami, Atlanta, Detroit and Dallas/Fort Worth.The lane has a metal detector rather than a full-body imaging machine and passengers will no longer no need to remove shoes, belts, light outerwear, and bags of liquids that are compliant with TSA restrictions. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Photo: Joe Raedle/2011 Getty Images
A 54-year-old illegal immigrant from Nigeria who had worked as a security supervisor at Newark Liberty International Airport for two decades was arrested on Monday for allegedly stealing the identity of a man named Jerry Thomas who was killed in Queens in July of 1992. The accused, Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole, apparently became Thomas to conceal his status as an illegal immigrant. Thomas’s murder is unsolved. Officials said that Oyewole entered the United States illegally in 1989 and had been using a birth certificate, a Social Security card, and other documents to adopt Thomas’s identify. Olywole passed multiple background checks by the security company that employed him. So who collects Jerry Thomas’s social security checks?
