TIA passenger arrested after screeners find knife in bag
TSA screeners initially detained wrong man
TSA Transportation Security Officers, in blue uniforms, screen airline passenger as they check-in at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport, Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. U.S. officials are defending new anti-terrorism security procedures at…
Posted: 07/31/2011
TAMPA - A passenger at Tampa International Airport was arrested Sunday morning after authorities found a knife in his carry-on bag.
Forty-three-year-old Phillippe Francois Martinez of Clearwater is charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
Officials say TSA screeners who saw the knife initially detained the wrong person and carry-on bag.
When they did not find a knife, authorities were able to identify the correct passenger after viewing security video.
Martinez had already boarded his American Airlines flight to Miami en route to San Juan.
He was removed from the flight and officials found the knife in his bag.
The incident caused flight and screening functions to be delayed.
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