A TSA screening supervisor was busted Friday at JFK Airport on a charge of having sex with two 15-year-old girls in the Dominican Republic, sources said.
Vernon Lythcott, of Brooklyn, was taken into custody by Homeland Security agents as he prepared to board a flight to the Caribbean country, according to a federal complaint filed in the case.
The case is part of a probe into sexual exploitation of children in foreign countries, sources said.
The teens told authorities they’d gone to a beach with Lythcott and had sex in with him in the water, after which he gave them a total of $80, the complaint said.
After his arrest, investigators found Lythcott’s cell phone with photos of the victims, authorities said.
Lythcott admitted traveling to the Dominican Republic “on numerous occasions’’ and that the intermediary who sent the young teens to him had previously “obtained girls for him to have sex with on approximately 45 occasions.” But he insisted that in those cases, the girls were more than 18-years-old.
Lythcott was arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court and released on $250,000 bail.
A spokeswoman for TSA did not return a call for comment.