FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. August 1 2021— On any given day, up to 50,000 passengers pass through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. “I think people would be surprised at the amount of items that we intercept from passengers,” Jason Martin, TSA security director at the airport, told Contact 5. “There are a […]
New York July 22 2021 Police at New York airports are no longer seizing marijuana, making arrests, or issuing tickets to travelers with low amounts of cannabis. “We don’t seize it. We just look for threats, explosives, knives, guns; we don’t look for illegally possessed narcotics,” Bart R. Johnson, a former State Police colonel who […]
QUEENS NY July 22 2021 — A TSA agent saved a Flushing couple’s honeymoon when he spotted the newlywed bride’s missing diamond as it shimmered on the floor of a Kennedy Airport security checkpoint, officials said Monday. The couple, Amir Khan Durrani and his wife, were traveling to Guam on their pandemic-delayed honeymoon; on their way […]
Onslow County NC July 21 2021— The baggage x-ray system for carry-on luggage stopped working at 4 a.m. Friday, causing dozens of passengers at Albert J. Ellis Airport in Jacksonville to miss their flights. Director Chris White said extra TSA staff and the regional manager have been sent in to help hand-check each carry-on bag. […]
Lehigh County, Pennsylvania July 21 2021 A man is facing charges after officials say he drove his pickup truck onto a runway at the Lehigh Valley International Airport as a plane was taking off Friday afternoon. Shortly before 3:30 p.m., Northampton resident Brad Weinhofer, 34, crashed through the security fence at Gate 28 and […]
CENTENNIAL, Colo. July 21 2021 Deputies said it looked like a scene from a “Grand Theft Auto” video game when a man hopped the fence at Centennial Airport and tried to board a Gulfstream jet taxiing on the runway. Sterlin Antonio Love, 31, was arrested after the Wednesday incident, which took place around 1:15 p.m. According […]
Boston MA July 18 2021 A traveler at Boston’s Logan Airport was recently stopped at a security checkpoint with a glass replica rifle in his carry-on baggage, according to a spokesperson for the Transportation Security Administration. “Ever seen a glass replica firearm?” Dan Velez, the TSA spokesperson for the New England region, wrote in a […]
MINNEAPOLIS MN July 15 2021 — An employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) stationed at MSP International Airport is charged with violating the Government Data Practice Act, for allegedly leaking a video of a security breach to a media outlet and taking unauthorized pictures of female travelers. The charges are detailed in a criminal complaint […]
Charlotte NC July 12 2021 A viral TikTok video shows a woman duct-taped to her chair on an American Airlines flight. According to the passenger who filmed the incident, the woman tried to exit the plane mid-flight. The passenger who filmed the video criticized American Airlines for how they handled the situation. The incident happened on […]
WASHINGTON DC July 11 2021 The number of guns found at American airport security checkpoints is fast approaching the number caught in all of 2020, officials said. The uptick in firearm discoveries is slowing down screening lines as more and more people return to air travel. In the first six months of 2021, Transportation Security Administration […]