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Even With Flying Down 95%, Guns, Knives, Ammo Still Turn Up At Airport Checkpoints, TSA Says Even With Flying Down 95%, Guns, Knives, Ammo Still Turn Up At Airport Checkpoints, TSA Says
Even With Flying Down 95%, Guns, Knives, Ammo Still Turn Up At Airport Checkpoints, TSA Says At a time when barely 100,000 people a day are flying out of airports across the country, TSA agents at LaGuardia found a traveler carrying two knives and two boxes of ammo in a carry-on, authorities said Monday. That wasn’t the worst example. Agents at a TSA checkpoint at Boston Logan Airport caught a woman trying to carry a handgun on her flight. So did TSA agents at Yeager Airport in Charleston, WV. “They might be wearing masks,” TSA Public Affairs Spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said. “But TSA officers are still able to spot a gun in a carry-on bag.” A year ago Sunday, TSA agents across t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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TSA: Female Passenger Made Bomb Threat Before Newark Airport Landing TSA: Female Passenger Made Bomb Threat Before Newark Airport Landing
TSA: Female Passenger Made Bomb Threat Before Newark Airport Landing A plane landing at Newark Airport was met by police after a female passenger made a bomb threat in the air. Authorities removed the woman from United Flight 2329 from Chicago after landing at 9:40 p.m. a TSA spokesperson said. Officials swept the plane and found nothing dangerous on board. The woman was taken to a local hospital for evaluation. New York Daily News Knicks writer Stefan Bondy was on board, live-tweeting the incident. "Update: it was a bomb threat. Don’t know why the protocol is to keep us on the plane if there’s a bomb. I’m going home."Stefan Bondy Twitter Screengrab Pa…

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by Cecilia Levine