A man reportedly got drunk and posed as a Transportation Security Administration contractor at San Francisco International Airport in order to grope women in private pat-downs, before being discovered and arrested.

The 53-year-old San Francisco man, whom law enforcement sources identified as Eric McLean Slighton, impersonated a screener with the private Covenant security firm on Tuesday, the San Francisco Gate reported. Slighton was ticketed to fly to Hong Kong, where he also has a residence, and had passed through security earlier in the day, before spending several hours drinking in an airport lounge, police said.

Then, dressed in khakis, a blue polo shirt and blue rubber gloves - similar to those worn by Covenant screeners at SFO’s international terminal - he entered the security area. He steered a woman going through security into a private screening booth used to pat down selected passengers.

“What happened inside isn’t known, because the woman, who was Asian, soon disappeared to catch an international flight,” the SFGate reported in its Matier and Ross column.

Slighton then tried again with a second woman. This time, however, he drew the attention - and suspicions - of the real screeners because male screeners are prohibited from taking women to the private booths without the presence of a female screener.