US Marine arrested at Logan

Boston Globe ^ | 85/19/09 | John C. Drake

[mylife]

US Marine arrested at Logan April 19, 2009 05:42 PM Email| Comments (0)| Text size – +

John C. Drake, Globe Staff

A US Marine was arrested today at Logan International Airport after federal airport screeners discovered a gun, bomb-making materials, and ammunition in his checked baggage, State Police and Transportation Security Administration officials said.

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[Carley]

How convenient for Napolitano.

[maggief]

A cunning stunt?

[mylife]

And for Eric Holder

[Osage Orange]

He's either one stupid Marine.....

OR one set-up Marine.....

[bgill]

I question the timing.

[loungitude]

Get ready for 24/7 coverage for the next few months.

[mylife]

Outside of the grenade fuse, it sounds like this guy was following the rules.

[Oldexpat]

I guess we can now expect that they will be doing secondary searches on all military people.

[McGruff]

A US Marine was arrested today at Logan International Airport after federal airport screeners discovered a gun, bomb-making materials, and ammunition in his checked baggage...

Seems pretty stupid if true, but if it was in his checked baggage he wasn't going to be using it while on the plane.

[mylife]

I choose the later.

[Ancient Drive]

I question the timing. I say he was set up... either that or one stupid marine, or taking one for HIS team.

[mylife]

I dont know what the regs are on the stuff besides guns and ammo.

He was following the rules fir checked firearms and ammo.
The airport screwed up.

[theymakemesick]

First thing I though of also.

[Osage Orange]

Would not surprise me one bit..............

[Kakaze]

Way to convenient.....re checked baggage because of a baggage handler mistake.........total set-up to diffuse that asinine report this week and on 19 April..no way

[mylife]

Noop. It couldnt happen!

[SandRat]

There's something fishy about this story

[downtownconservative]

“...discovered the following items in his checked baggage: a locked handgun box containing a semi-automatic handgun, a fully loaded gun magazine, several boxes of 9 mm and 7.62 mm ammunition, three model rocket engines containing an explosive mixture (model rocket fuel), military pull-type fuses, switches, electronics kit boxes with various components, and a hand grenade fuse assembly with detonator.”

This sounds pretty innocent to me. The pistol was not loaded. But he failed to declare it. Napolitano will try to make this poor sap out to be a probable domestic terrorist and underline the DHS perceived need for close scrutiny of our Soldiers and Marines. This kid needs a good attorney.

[tomkat]