A man from Ocean
County was arrested Friday at Newark Liberty International Airport after Transportation
Security Administration officers prevented him from carrying a loaded
handgun onto his flight.
The handgun was
detected when the officer, who was staffing a checkpoint X-ray monitor in
Terminal A, spotted the weapon inside the man's carry-on bag.
Officials alerted
police, who confiscated the handgun and arrested the man.
The New Egypt
resident claimed he forgot about the weapon in his carry-on bag.
The man is facing
federal civil charges.
It was the ninth gun
caught at one of the airport checkpoints so far this year.