Overview
- Surveillance video released through Fox 5 shows the Oct. 30 breach at Hartsfield-Jackson’s main TSA checkpoint around 8:30 a.m.
- Authorities identify the suspect as 40-year-old Fabian Leon and the bystander as Mark Thomas, a former professional baseball player.
- The footage depicts Leon pushing past agents as a TSA officer yells “breach” before Thomas tackles him to the floor for TSA to handcuff.
- Police say three TSA officers were assaulted, Leon resisted and was taken away in a wheelchair, and he now faces simple battery and interfering-with-security charges.
- Leon allegedly told investigators he had taken drugs and consumed alcohol beforehand, according to Fox 5, and Thomas said the suspect appeared detached.