She gave the TSA a taste of its own medicine.

A 61-year-old woman, fed up with manhandling security screeners, allegedly gave a female agent at the Transport Security Administration of the Phoenix airport a pat-down of her own, news reports said yesterday.


Terminal 4 of the Sky Harbour airport in Phoenix, where the incident allegedly occurred

Yukari Mihamae, a writer and translator who lives outside Denver, was arrested for allegedly groping and squeezing the agent's left breast at Sky Harbor Airport on Thursday, a TV channel said.

The Japan native got into the altercation in Terminal 4 with the female agent, who was dressed in full uniform and wearing her badge, according to the TV report.

The report said Mihamae was accused of grabbing the agent's "left breast through her clothing and squeezing and twisting it with both hands without the victim's permission."

"I go through this every week, and every week there is some problem," she said at her home in Longmont, Colorado. But Mihamae denied she groped the agent.

She was immediately arrested on felony charges of sexual assault and detained in a local prison for a while.

The Department of Homeland Security said, "the agency will not tolerate assaults against its work force." A source denied that a TSA officer patted down Mihamae.