Atlanta GA June 5 2021 Four people were arrested after their suitcases were found to be filled with 174 pounds of marijuana at the Atlanta airport, police said Friday. A police dog at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport sniffed out the drugs after five suitcases were unloaded from a flight from Seattle on May 26, according to […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. June 5 2021– Police at the Jacksonville International Airport confirmed Friday that an airplane passenger was arrested and the FBI is investigating the incident. A source confirms that a couple was on board the plane with a lap child. The source said that the couple was told that the child was too old […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. May 30 2021 A 63-year-old woman breached security at Nashville International Airport, refusing to stop for officers as she tried to make her flight, according to police. An arrest warrant states airport officers responded around 4 p.m. Wednesday after reports of a woman breaching the A-B concourse exit, headed toward concourse A. When the […]
New York City NY May 26 2021 The operator of New York City’s subway says it plans to spend $2.2 million a month on private security guards to address crime and quality-of-life issues in the sprawling system. Officials at the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the subway, have been increasing the number of guards while […]
St Paul MN May 23 2021 A New York man was arrested and charged with cocaine possession Thursday after snorting the drug and “acting erratically and causing a commotion” on a commercial flight, forcing the plane to be diverted to Minneapolis-St. Paul, authorities said. According to federal court documents, Jet Blue Airlines Flight 915 was en […]
ST LOUIS MO May 16 2021— A little more than a year into an overhaul of security on the region’s mass transit system, Fredrick Watford has noticed a change on his daily commute. “A lot more peaceful,” Watford said Tuesday afternoon on the way to his job at St. Louis Lambert International Airport from downtown. […]
Grand Island NE May 8 2021 Tyler Caudill of Phillips allegedly tried to gain access to Kearney High School on Monday and then traveled to Central Nebraska Regional Airport on Tuesday and barricaded himself inside a private aircraft. Grand Island police were called to the airport at 1:39 p.m. Tuesday. Police had been informed that […]
PROVIDENCE RI May 8 2021— The state agency that runs T.F. Green Airport was wrong when it fired the deputy chief of the airport police and did not provide her a hearing under the state Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights, a Superior Court judge has ruled. In a decision dated Thursday, Presiding Justice Alice […]
Atlanta GA May 7 2021 A woman was arrested at an Atlanta airport after she was caught smuggling around $40,000 worth of cocaine hidden in several pairs of shoes. According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a 21-year-old woman from Georgia was stopped for further inspection by agents after returning to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International […]
SAN ANTONIO, Texas April 18 2021 A handgun-wielding man who opened fire outside the San Antonio airport was fatally shot by police Thursday, hours after he’d shot at vehicles from a highway overpass in the northern part of the Texas city, officials said. The city’s airport was placed on lockdown after police got a call around […]