TSA officials: Man caught with loaded handgun in carry-on at Newark airport checkpoint
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.
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May 31, 2022, 2:50 PM
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3h agoA 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.
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