302: Steve Lazarus – Airplane Bad Behavior, Arson and Bomb Threat

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

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🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Steve Lazarus reviews his investigation of a flight attendant for disrupting the normal operations of two commercial flights. The flight attendant set a fire in the lavatory of a 50-passenger commuter aircraft, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. He was also charged with phoning a gate at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta just six days after the 9/11 terror attacks and threatening that the plane would blow up in the air and all passengers aboard the flight were going to die. Steve worked this case while assigned as the Atlanta Division’s first full-time airport liaison agent. We also talk about Call Me Sonny, his new novel inspired by one of his real-life cases. Steve served in the FBI for twenty-two years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 302 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:11.3	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through
0:17.8	my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:23.0	Today we get to speak to retired agent Steve Lazarith, who served in the FBI for 22 years.
0:31.5	And this episode he reviews his investigation of a flight attendant suspected of disrupting
0:38.3	the normal operations of two commercial flights.
0:42.6	The flight attendant set a fire in the laboratory of a 50 passenger commuter aircraft, forcing
0:49.2	the plane to make an emergency landing.
0:52.3	He was also charged with phoning a gate at Hart's Filled International Airport in Atlanta
0:58.2	just six days after the 9-11 terrorist attacks threatening that the plane would blow up in
1:04.8	the air and all the passengers aboard were going to die.
1:10.2	Steve worked this case while assigned as the Atlanta Division's first full-time airport
1:15.9	liaison agent.
1:17.9	His first assignment was to the Atlanta Division where he spent the initial 10 years of his career
1:24.3	investigating anti-government extremists, drug trafficking organizations and violent street
1:30.4	gangs.
1:31.4	He later attended the FBI's Hazardous Device School in Huntsville, Alabama and became a full-time
1:39.3	special agent bomb technician, SAPT.
1:43.4	His criminal investigations and counter-explosive experience led him to several overseas deployments
1:50.5	in support of the global war on terror, including Stinson Baghdad, Kuwait and Afghanistan.
1:58.2	Steve transferred to the Burlington RA in Vermont, his office of preference, where he had
2:03.8	one of the FBI's first ever convictions of a sovereign citizen in the state.
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