World Trade Center security chief resigns
The Associated Press | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 2 months AGO
Parachute jumpers, a 16-year-old daredevil and a sleeping security guard have made the site of the nation’s tallest building — and the nation’s worst terrorist attack — look dangerously easy to breach.
On Friday, the security chief for New York City’s World Trade Center complex resigned, his company’s spokesman confirmed in an email to the Los Angeles Times.
David Velazquez had been working since last August as assistant security director for the real estate firm Durst Organization. Velazquez and the company took over security of the World Trade Center in January.
Three skydivers in the middle of the night last September managed to reach one of the top floors and parachute onto the streets of Lower Manhattan. A 16-year-old was arrested earlier this month for climbing the 1 World Trade Center’s spire. Last weekend, a security guard was fired after snoozing on the job, the New York Post reported.
Velazquez was formerly a longtime employee of the FBI.
Distributed by MCT Information Services
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