Samuel Britton, a non-binary Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition, faces felony theft charges for allegedly stealing a $2,325 Vera Bradley suitcase at Minneapolis St. Paul airport on September 16th. Following an initial denial and subsequent apology claiming he took the wrong bag due to fatigue, Britton was placed on leave from the Department of Energy before being charged with movable property theft, carrying a potential five-year prison sentence and $10,000 fine. The hosts question the severity of the penalty, speculating it reflects homophobia while suggesting Britton may have been traveling with only personal items rather than luggage. [Automatically generated summary]
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Samuel Britton's Luggage Mystery00:07:32
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Got a damn good show.
Damn good show.
Now, y'all seen this they before, right?
I think that's his pronouns, they.
He is actually.
Big in his shoes, man.
It's patriotic.
It's got the red, white, and blue in it.
At least he's patriotic.
That's a damn patriot right there.
His name is Samuel Britton.
He's an American nuclear engineer and LGBTQ activist serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy in 2019.
So he's the guy with the mop cleaning the floors and nuclear power.
No, he's actually a nuclear engineer.
He is?
Yeah.
I find it hard to believe, though.
So he's not the guy mopping up.
He's not Homer Simpson at the damn.
He's not Homer Simpson working at the.
But anyway, the reason why we talk about they.
His name is Sam Britton, man.
You got to call him, man.
Call him Sam.
Yeah.
I'm tired all this day.
Call him Sammy.
I'm tired of being nice.
Sam.
Did you got a video of him walking out?
Yeah, this is, well, here's a video of him walking around.
This is Sam.
He's like non-binary, right?
I don't know.
Of course he is.
Look at him.
Yeah, he's non-binary.
He's got a mustache and red lipstick.
That's definitely non-binary.
Look like a Star Trek character.
Yeah, something off of Star Trek, huh?
Yeah.
Years 3,047.
He's flying spaceships.
That's what you look like.
Yeah, but anyway.
He's in big trouble.
And for somebody, this man just got arrested.
For somebody to get arrested that's on the Biden administration, on the Biden crime family payroll, for you to get indicted, for you to get arrested, the evidence has got to be overwhelming.
Substantial.
Yeah.
So pull it up on Fox News.
They got an article up there.
Non-binary nuclear official charged with stealing women's luggage at airport.
As soon as I see that, I'm thinking...
That's what it's fake news.
That's fake news.
Yeah, I mean, I'm thinking maybe he took somebody's luggage and it looked like his and he...
But I'm gonna say, because I've done that.
Yeah.
You know, I've done that.
People's done that with my luggage.
So I was like, well, this is probably...
It's on Fox News.
Maybe they, you know, doing hyperbole.
Maybe they're spreading.
But, you know.
Maybe they're taking the page out of CNN.
But they're not.
I don't think so.
Go ahead and pull it back up.
Britton faces up to five years in prison and $10,000 fine for allegedly taking another person's luggage.
Scroll.
That sounds homophobic to me.
They're going to give him five years?
Oh, scanning.
I can't see that shit.
That's homophobic right there.
You give a man five years, how much fine?
Yeah, it is.
It does.
That sounds homophobic.
That doesn't sound tolerant to me.
Throwing the book at that fella.
Yeah, Sam Britton, a senior energy department official, was charged with stealing a traveler's luggage in Minneapolis airport in September, shortly before quietly taking a leave of absence.
You know, we haven't heard nothing about this dude since.
Yeah, he took a leave of absence quietly.
Yeah, quietly.
Bitches cause these damn charges.
Yeah, Britton, who serves as the DOE's department deputy.
Damn, DOE's, I need glad.
DOE's deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition allegedly took a Vera Bradley suitcase worth $2,325 from the luggage carousel at the Minneapolis St. Paul airport on September 16th.
Man, that's a date for my birthday.
According to a criminal complaint, a criminal complaint filed on October 26th in Minnesota State Court and obtained by Fox News.
Put your glasses on.
Britton had traveled from Washington, D.C. to MSP that day.
After the suitcase's owner alerted police, officers reviewed videos.
Guilty, Officers, falling in jail.
After the suitcase's owner alerted police, officers reviewed video surveillance of the carousel and identified Britton taking the luggage before removing his tag, identifying the owner.
The court filing stated, ooh, law enforcement observed Britton using the luggage during at least two other trips to Washington, D.C. on September 18th and October 9th.
So they didn't return in his other flights.
They've been investigating this cat.
Yeah.
And he's using the luggage to carry all his non-battery, non-binary accessories.
Yeah, then on October 9th, Britton denied stealing anything when a police officer called to discuss the incident.
Britton confirmed still possessing the suitcase.
Keep going.
Is it more to it?
Man, if I had taken it.
I was just saying that shows intent.
Look, if I had taken the wrong bag, I'm happy to return it, but I don't have any clothes for another individual.
Britton told the officer, that was my clothes when I opened the bag.
Two hours after the phone call, Britton called the officer back and apologized for not being completely honest.
But Britton said it was a mistake and blamed being tired for taking the wrong bag at the carousel.
He was tired.
He was tired.
He was tired as hell.
Defendant said that defendant said when they opened the bag at the hotel, they realized it was not theirs.
The court filing stated.
Defendant got nervous.
People would think they stole the bag.
They stole the bag.
That's funny.
Would think they stole the bag and did not know what to do.
Defendant stated that they left the clothes from the bag inside the drawers in the hotel room.
Britton was ultimately charged with a felony theft of a movable property without consent, a charge that could result in five-year sentence, $10,000 fine, or both.
I read somewhere else.
Let me keep reading.
Minnesota.
Britton was placed on leave about a month ago.
Guilty, guilty, guilty.
Britt was placed on leave about a month ago, and another official was named as the replacement in the interim earlier this month, according to the exchange monitor, which tracks government hires.
He's guilty.
Sam Britton is on leave from DOE.
He ain't on leave.
That dude's got some charges.
He's laying low for a while.
I read somewhere else.
$2,300 bag, him being homosexual and all.
Gay men, they have a very, they have a very acumen when it comes to expensive, materialistic things.
They know, they know brands.
Like women, like women like their purses, their bags.
Yeah.
Like non-binary guys, they just like the women.
They even worse.
They 10 times worse as the women.
You saw them shoes in that first photo we showed y'all.
Yeah, but I saw somewhere.
That shows intent right there.
$2,300?
Yeah, and it's a, it's a, I never heard of that bag.
You heard of it?
So Chris heard of the bag.
You know, Chris's wife probably in those bags and stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, Chris has got them bags.
But I read somewhere else on Mail Online.
This man.
I don't know damn $2,300 bag.
What's the luggage?
Give a damn what the hell it is.
I mean, what?
I go to Tar, give me a bag $99.
You know what I can do with the other $2,200?
Same.
Crazy as hell.
I could put it in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is going to be $200,000 in about five years.
I'm going to be rich.
Bitcoin going to zero.
That's what's going to happen.
But I had another website I read on Mail Online.
I'm not sure if it's... UK Mail Online.
Yep.
Real or fake, but they said that when he didn't have any luggage.
Yeah.
According to his manifesto, whatever on the crib, he didn't have any luggage.
He went down there.
Oh, here's a bunch of people.
He had a probably a box of condoms, some lubricants.