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BROOKSVILLE — A security officer with the Transportation Security Administration has been arrested and faces charges of drug possession, according to the Hernando County Sheriff's Office.
Jason Patrick Dyer, 33, of Spring Hill was taken into custody Tuesday and charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance and a single count of possession of drug paraphernalia. He was transported to the county jail, where he remained Thursday in lieu of $5,500 bail.
According to the TSA, Dyer has been working for the agency at the Tampa International Airport since 2002.
"While a review is under way, he will not assigned to passenger screening duties," TSA spokesman Jonathan Allen wrote in an e-mail to the Times.
According to the arrest report, Hernando deputies were responding to a call about a possible burglary when they arrived at a home at 4340 Dristol Ave. shortly after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. The home had recently been abandoned after a foreclosure.
Once inside, deputies said they found three men standing at a kitchen counter with unknown objects in their hands: Dyer; Seth Heiser, 36; and Joseph Paul Carioscia, 29.
During a search of the home, deputies uncovered pills, syringes, a glass pipe, a scale and other drug paraphernalia. The pills were later identified as Roxicodone and methadone. Deputies said it appeared the men were using and packaging the items for sale.
Handing over an identification card, Dyer told deputies that he was as an employee of TSA and had just been hanging out at the house. But while patting Dyer down, one of the deputies found three hypodermic needles on him, the Sheriff's Office said. Dyer then told deputies that he had a drug problem and didn't want to lose his job.
All three men were arrested and taken into custody.
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