Jackson airport officials destroy bag after passenger lies about identity
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/9860379.htm
(snip)Lauren Stover, eastern director of public affairs for the Transportation Security Administration, said the passenger told airport employees he worked for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics but when airport officials asked to see his badge, the passenger said he misrepresented his job affiliation.
"Therefore, we felt it prudent to take a look at the bag," Stover said.
The bag was destroyed with a water cannon on a stairwell in the airport, Rowlett said.
Stover said the bag was then examined and found to have wires, a telephone battery, tweezers and a cassette player.
Rowlett said the passenger told officials that the suspicious item in the bag was a phone charger, but the item didn't match the phone that the passenger was carrying.(snip)
**unnamed passenger**
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City Police Investigate Trespassing Suspect
Thursday, October 7, 2004 at 1:43pm
Oklahoma City police say they're looking into some suspicious materials found inside a vacant building, where a man had apparently set up shop without asking.
Oklahoma City police arrest a 39 year old man for allegedly trespassing at a vacant building near Northwest 16th and Broadway, but it wasn't the fact he'd set up shop with office furniture and a computer which concerned police, it was the books and pictures in the building. While he won't disclose specifics, Capt. Jeff Becker says the subject matter of the books and the pictures were enought to alarm those who discovered them and investigators.
***While Becker won't confirm it, the books are said to be on terrorism and the pictures are of Saddam Hussein and other enemies.***
Becker says currently the suspect, Kelly Sean Spencer, is only facing a trespassing charge, but investigators are researching the materials found in the building to see if there is a need for more concern. -mg
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