DENVER — Two security agents at Denver International Airport have been ***** over allegations they manipulated passenger screening systems to allow one of them to grope male travellers.

Denver television station KCNC obtained law enforcement reports that found a Transportation Security Administration supervisor saw a female screener co-ordinating with a male screener in February to allow him to grope the crotch of a male passenger he thought was attractive.

The female agent is accused of setting the computer to indicate a woman was being screened so the machine would find an anomaly in the genital area, requiring a pat-down.

She told the supervisor that it had happened at least 10 other times.

In a statement Tuesday, TSA spokesman Ross Feinstein confirmed the firings and called the alleged acts “egregious and intolerable.”