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Posted on 09/29/2002 2:26:11 PM PDT by newsperson999
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A Bulgarian national was arrested Sunday at Atlantic City International Airport after federal screeners found a pair of scissors embedded in a bar of soap and two boxcutters in a lotion bottle in his backpack.
Nikolay Volodicv Dzhonev, 21, was charged with possession of a prohibited weapon. Egg Harbor Township police said Dzhonev was being held on $100,000 bail.
Authorities said the man was a student from Bulgaria with a summer visa allowing him to work at an Atlantic City-area convenience store.
He was the last passenger to pass through screening Sunday for a flight from Atlantic City to Myrtle Beach, S.C., Transportation Security Administration spokesman Robert Johnson said.
When his backpack went through the X-ray machine, screeners spotted the scissors and pulled him aside, he said. A search of the backpack turned up the scissors, embedded in a bar of soap, and the boxcutters hidden in a lotion bottle, Johnson said.
"The concern was there may have been some effort to conceal them," Johnson said. He said the fact that the man's one-way ticket was purchased over the Internet in August also raised suspicion.
The man told authorities he packed the items that way to keep them from damaging anything else in his backpack, Johnson said. He said he bought the Spirit Airlines ticket so he could visit a friend in South Carolina before returning to Bulgaria.
"We're proud of the fact that our screeners caught it," Johnson said. "Here's an example of the federal screeners doing their job keeping these items off the plane, giving law enforcement a chance to sort through it."
Spirit Airlines spokeswoman Laura Bennett said the flight carrying
Now how can a STUDENT afford a plane ticket to Mrytle Beach ......working in a 7-11 for the summer???
Any bets on the ethnicity of the convenience store owner?
"The concern was there may have been some effort to conceal them,"
May have been? There was an obvious effort to conceal them.
"The man told authorities he packed the items that way to keep them from damaging anything else in his backpack"
BS! Scizors[sp?] and boxcutters arent readily available in the United States? If he needed them he could've bought them anywhere...once he arrived.
My Homeland Security solution: Shoot him now.
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