By Mark Maurer/The Jersey Journal
Former Hoboken SWAT team commander Lt. Angelo Andriani was in hot water over photos showing, among other things, him and Hooters girls posing with Hoboken weapons during a supposed mission of mercy to help survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Lt. Angelo Andriani of the Hoboken Police Department, who is currently on a two-year paid suspension from the force following the 2007 SWAT team scandal in Hoboken, caused a disturbance at Tampa International Airport in Florida on Jan. 18, police reported.
According to a Tampa police log, two TIA police officers responded to a disturbance call at 9:15 a.m. when Andriani, 56, who was in line for a flight to New Jersey, became irate when airline flight crew members were permitted to pass him in line at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint. He took pictures of TSA agents' badges, police said.
Ann Davis, TSA spokeswoman, said the passenger yelled at TSA officers, complained about the screening process, displayed a badge and said he was a police officer.
Airport police ran a wanted check on him before allowing him to continue to his flight, the police log said.
Hoboken Police Chief Anthony Falco said that, since this relates to an internal investigation within the police department, he is required by attorney general guidelines not to comment. Falco said he does not know Andriani's current residence.
It has been previously reported that Andriani is paid $11,000 a month while on suspension. Andriani’s suspension is the longest in the history of the Hoboken Police Department.
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Andriani could not be immediately reached for comment.
Suspended Hoboken Police Lt. Angelo Andriani pretending to be a Ku Klux Klan member at a restaurant during a supposed mercy mission to the South. Last month, he was accused of causing a disturbance at a Tampa airport.
The 2007 SWAT team scandal resulted in former Chief of Police Carmen LaBruno's resignation and a lawsuit against Andriani by five Hispanic Hoboken police officers who called him an "unabashed white supremacist."
Andriani and other members of the city's SWAT team had gone on a supposed mission of mercy to help survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Photos and videos, though, showed them in police-issued gear posing with bare-breasted women at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, letting Hooters girls hold their weapons in Alabama and downing Jello shots in a Louisiana bar. They also show him posing in a Confederate cap and pretending to be a Ku Klux Klan member at a restaurant.
Video shows Andriani passing a handgun and bullets around at a party.
Lt. Angelo Andriani in a Louisiana bar in one of a series of photos from the Hoboken SWAT team's now infamous trip south. Earlier this month, Andriani was accused of causing a disturbance at a Tampa airport.
Lt. Angelo Andriani in a Louisiana bar in one of a series of photos from the Hoboken SWAT team's now infamous trip south. Earlier this month, Andriani was accused of causing a disturbance at a Tampa airport
CENSORED! Lt. Angelo Andriani with a bare-breasted woman at Mardi Gras in one of a series of photos from the Hoboken SWAT team's now infamous trip south. Earlier this month, Andriani was accused of causing a disturbance at a Tampa airport.
Suspended Hoboken Police Lt. Angelo Andriani pretending to arrest two people during a supposed mercy mission to the Hurricane Katrina-battered South. Last month, he was accused of causing a disturbance at a Tampa airport.
Lt. Angelo Andriani wearing a Confederate hat in one of a series of photos from the Hoboken SWAT team's now infamous trip south. Earlier this month, Andriani was accused of causing a disturbance at a Tampa airport.
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