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Panic At Newark Airport (
Update
): Things Get Hairy After Traveler Breaches Checkpoint
UPDATE: Panic ensued Monday morning after a woman "breached a security checkpoint" at Newark Airport, a Port Authority police spokesperson said. "Around 10:20 am a woman breached a security checkpoint in Terminal C and PAPD responded," Public Information Officer Abigail Goldring said. "PAPD took the individual into custody, moved passengers onto the street, and conducted a sweep of the affected areas as a precaution. "While there was no bomb threat nor shooting that occurred, the disturbance caused significant public alarm to ticketed passengers who consequently ran from the disturbance a…
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It's The Old Gun In The Belt Buckle Trick: Ridgefield Park Man Nabbed At Newark Airport
TSA agents at Newark Airport said they nabbed a Ridgefield Park man trying to sneak a gun belt buckle through security. The weapon, seized at a Terminal C X-ray security check, was “packed inside of two soft-sided zippered cases within a backpack and initially appeared to be a large belt buckle with a replica gun on it,” the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said. It could quickly be popped out of its “decorative metal oval frame” and used, the agency said in a release. The owner told Port Authority police who arrested him that he “forgot he had his gun with him,” it said. “Cla…
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Covid-
19: Fewer Flying, But More Caught Carrying Guns At Airports
An Essex County traveler caught trying to bring a loaded gun through a Newark Airport checkpoint late last week wasn't a rarity: Even though far fewer people are flying because of the coronavirus, the TSA says, more passengers are packin'. Airline traveler volume since the pandemic hit has been 60% to 80% lower than last year. Yet, with 11 weeks left in 2020, the TSA reports as many guns seized this year as in all of 2019, "when passenger volume was significantly more robust," said Thomas Carter, the TSA’s security director for New Jersey. Some examples: A Pennsylvania man was caught wit…