[WestCoastGal]

Seems that security in some places is not what it should be.

Published December 29, 2003 AZAircraftArrest

PHOENIX - A 57-year-old Florida man was arrested after he allegedly took a utility knife on a plane.

A passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight departing from Phoenix reported seeing Peter Joseph Martin with a five-inch utility knife as the plane was leaving the gate on Sunday, said FBI spokesman Susan Herskovits.

When confronted by a flight attendant, Martin gave the knife to the attendant, and the plane returned to the gate, Herskovits said.

Martin was being held in Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of bringing a dangerous weapon on an aircraft.

Herskovits declined to comment on why Martin may have brought the utility knife aboard or to say whether federal authorities had interviewed him.

The Northwest flight, which was bound for St. Paul and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was allowed to continue Sunday after Martin was detained.

[OXENinFLA]

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/123103-airlinearrest.html

Arrest at Philadelphia Airport
Dec. 31, 2003 — 28-year-old John King of Lithonia, Ga was arrested while trying to board Delta Airlines Flight bound for Atlanta.

Travel Safety Administration employees noticed something suspicious at the checkpoint.

Philadelphia police were then called in.

That's when a novelty lighter King carried yielded a switchblade knife.

King claimed he got it for a gift and forgot he had it.

King had been charged with a federal offense..Carrying a Prohibited Weapon onto an Aircraft.

He spent the night behind bars and was released this morning on his own recognizance.

[JustPiper]

WHAT is this?!

Bush administration wants entire 9/11 case kept secret -January 6, 2004 -BY GINA HOLLAND -Chgo. Sun-Times- WASHINGTON -- In an extraordinary request, the Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to let it keep its arguments secret in a case involving an immigrant's challenge of his treatment after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

[JustPiper]

That makes two breeches today