(Headline USA) Sam Brinton, the nonbinary former Energy Department official who was arrested and charged with stealing multiple women’s suitcases, was reportedly on a taxpayer-funded work trip at the time of one of the thefts.
Documents obtained by the New York Post showed that Brinton traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, as a representative for the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy in July 2022. The business trip took place from July 6-9 and included a “meeting and site visit to DOE Las Vegas Site,” the records showed. The trip cost taxpayers $1,951.50 total.
It was during this trip that Brinton was caught on security camera footage stealing a woman’s luggage from the Las Vegas International Airport—one of three cases in which Brinton has been accused of doing so.
The suitcase and its belongings were worth approximately $3,670, court records revealed.
Brinton was ordered by a court to pay the $3,670 to the victim in restitution, given a 180-day suspended jail sentence and ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation as part of an adult diversion program.
The cross-dressing ex-bureaucrat—who has spoken publicly about a penchant for puppy play and support for child sex-trafficking—was also caught on camera stealing another woman’s luggage in the Minneaolis–St. Paul Airport in Minnesota. That bag was worth $2,325, court records showed.
More recently, Brinton was arrested for allegedly stealing luggage from Houston-based fashion designer Asya Khamsin, who came forward earlier this year to share pictures Brinton had posted wearing the clothing that had been packed in her missing suitcase.
Khamsin said she lost the suitcase from the Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.C., back in 2018.
Brinton, who was charged with being a “fugitive from justice,” spent weeks in a Montgomery County, Maryland, jail before being released last month on bond. The investigation is being spearheaded by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police.
