Posted on 04/19/2009 4:24:48 PM PDT by 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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(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Since when are guns and ammo illegal in checked baggage? What was the bomb-making material? Hydrogen peroxide from Walgreens?
“Corporal Justin Reed, 22, of Jacksonville, N.C., was booked on US Airways Flight 877 to Charlotte, N.C., said TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis. She said Reed had arrived on a flight from Las Vegas this morning.
TSA screeners in Terminal B called State Police at 7:10 a.m...”
US 877 Flight Status
Flight: (US) US Airways 877
Departure Date: Sun Apr 19, 2009
Status: Landed 21 minutes late
US 877 Flight Information
Route: From (BOS) Boston, MA, US to (CLT) Charlotte, NC, US
Duration: 2h 28m
Equipment: Boeing 757-200 Passenger (Scheduled)
On-time Rating: 4.7 of 5 What this?
Codeshares: This flight is marketed as a codeshare flight by the following carrier(s):
(UA) United Airlines 2156
Departure Information
Departure Status Details
Airport: (BOS) Logan International Airport
City: Boston, MA, US
Scheduled: 8:00 AM - Sun Apr 19, 2009
Actual: 8:08 AM - Sun Apr 19, 2009
Departed gate 8 min later than scheduled
Gate: B6 (Terminal B)
Local Time: 9:11 PM - Sun Apr 19, 2009
Arrival Information
Arrival Status Details
Airport: (CLT) Douglas Airport
City: Charlotte, NC, US
Scheduled: 10:15 AM - Sun Apr 19, 2009
Actual: 10:36 AM - Sun Apr 19, 2009
Arrived at gate 21 min later than scheduled
Gate: D10
Local Time: 9:11 PM - Sun Apr 19, 2009
I wonder if Corporal Reed was already aboard Flight 877 when he was arrested.
This stinks.
Guessing? live motors are a tsa prohibited item.
It might go back to that later on.
Here is tracker data for flights from LAS to BOS yesterday.
Flight Status Results
Route: Las Vegas to Boston
Date: Sat April 18, 2009
Time: All day
Departure Airport: (LAS) McCarran International Airport
City: Las Vegas, NV, US
Arrival Airport: (BOS) Logan International Airport
City: Boston, MA, US
Flight Listing: Sat April 18, 2009 All day
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Flight Rating Carrier Sched Actual Gate Sched Actual Gate Status Equip. Track
US 67
US Airways 7:30 AM 7:30 AM T-1
A11 3:36 PM 3:24 PM T-B
B20 Landed
On-time 320
US 66
US Airways 10:10 PM 10:15 PM T-1
A10 6:14 AM 6:08 AM T-B
B5 Landed
On-time 320
B6 484
JetBlue Airways 11:05 PM 11:12 PM T-1 7:07 AM 7:12 AM T-C Landed
On-time 320
“and a hand grenade fuse assembly with detonator.”
“This sounds pretty innocent to me.”
Fuse assembly yes, but shipping a detonator onboard a passenger aircraft is a problem.
The military pull-type fuses could be the type with the M209 cap, which is basically a shotgun primer, probably OK.
The “kit boxes with components” is definitely OK as long as he didn’t have KN-6 switches or sprytrons, but if he did there would be much more hysteria.
I don’t know what the DOT hazmat rules are for model rocket engines on a passenger flight but they could be a problem.
The grenade detonator is a serious problem, they are not firecrackers.
that does get to a carousel will just go round and round for a looooong time Unless this Marine had a long layover in Boston, there was no way that his luggage could have been put “back on the plane.”
Thousands Standing Around is counting on the sheeple not knowing how this works or how long it takes, ONLY that their report was right.
It tells me that the contents of the luggage were cosher in Vegas and something was slipped in it at the connecting airport. What do I win?
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/04/us_marine_arres.html
From the Metro staff at The Boston Globe
“US Marine arrested at Logan”
April 19, 2009 05:42 PM
By John C. Drake, Globe Staff
SNIPPET: “TSA screeners in Terminal B called State Police at 7:10 a.m. after a screen 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, military pull-type fuses, switches, electronics kit boxes with various components, and a hand grenade fuse assembly with detonator.”
I saw it earlier. Thank you for the ping.
I have no good opinion of this.
I could speculate, but will wait.
“I have no good opinion of this.
I could speculate, but will wait.”
Ditto.
It seems.
More info needed.
It’s breaking news, so I have no thoughts on this until I see more details.
It’d be easy to speculate, but I won’t.
Roger that.
Thanks. That’s what I suspected.
If that turns out to be the case we have to beat this administration and the MSM over the head with it.
Make it a theme at the “Independence day” party’s
The firearm must be declared at the check-in counter at which time the counter attendant will slap a number of stickers on the case that say FIREARM in big bold letters. (Might as well say STEAL ME to the baggage handlers).
Also the Marine is in violation of several DOT regs that prohibit the shipping of incendiary and explosive devices on passenger air craft.
Also I would doubt that he was licensed to posses the detonators.
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