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Rockland Man Sentenced for
Impersonating an Armed Federal Agent
BOSTON, MA—A Massachusetts man was sentenced to two years probation for bypassing
security at Logan Airport and boarding a commercial flight through an exit lane by pretending to
be an armed federal agent.
Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks, George Naccara, Federal Security
Director for the Transportation Security Administration in Boston and Warren T. Bamford,
Special Agent in Charge of Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Office, announced
today that STEPHEN GRANT, 48, of Rockland, Massachusetts, was sentenced to two years
probation for one count of falsely impersonating a federal agent.
According to a factual account given by the government at an earlier hearing and
admitted by the defendant, GRANT, Director of Sales for a medical supply company in
Rockland, flew on business from Boston’s Logan Airport to San Diego, California on January 1,
2007. When GRANT approached the American Airlines ticket counter, he flashed a badge that
he carried on account of his part-time job as an assistant harbor master for the Town of Chatham.
GRANT told the ticket agent that he was flying armed and wrote on a flying-while-armed form
that he was an agent of the Department of Homeland Security, neither of which was true.
GRANT then used the flying-while-armed form, and his badge, to bypass security and board the
plane through an exit lane.
On GRANT’s return flight from San Diego to Boston on January 4, 2007, he again
falsely stated to airline personnel that he was a Department of Homeland Security agent flying
armed. As a result, GRANT was invited into the cockpit, was told the identity of the two Air
Marshals on the flight, and was informed who else on the plane was armed.
The case was investigated by the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S.
Attorney William D. Weinreb of Loucks’ National Security and Antiterrorism Division. Press Releases | Boston Home
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