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Police arrest traveler who fled from security screeners at Miami International Airport
The Charleston Gazette ^ | 02-26-08 | ap
Posted on 02/26/2008 1:05:04 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
MIAMI (AP) — A man with multiple passports was arrested Monday after he bolted from security screeners at Miami International Airport, jumped from a second floor concourse and broke his arm and ribs, authorities said.
Transportation and Security Administration officials became suspicious of Faid Beydoun as he stood in a security line, waiting to board a Los Angeles-bound flight. When Beydoun’s travel documents also raised concerns, agents asked him to step out of line for a secondary screening.
Beydoun, who was carrying multiple passports, then ran from security screeners, jumped 25 feet off the second floor concourse and broke his arm and ribs, The Miami Herald reported.
The man was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence, according to a statement. They did not identify him, but Miami-Dade County Corrections Department spokeswoman Janelle Hall said Beydoun was arrested for the same charges Monday, as well as loitering and prowling.
Telephone calls by The Associated Press to Miami-Dade Police, the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were not returned Monday night.
Beydoun, 42, was being held in the hospital ward of the Miami-Dade jail at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Hall said. Beydoun did not have an attorney listed.
Two other men, also headed to Los Angeles, were taken off a later flight that was still on the tarmac. They told investigators they paid for Beydoun’s plane ticket and that he was their Miami Beach party guide. No weapons or dangerous material were found with them.
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http://www.TheAviationNation.com/2008/02/20/passenger-arrested-with-box-cutter-in-hollow-book/
Wednesday
20 Feb 2008
“Passenger Arrested with Box Cutter in Hollow Book”
By Annie Jacobsen in category Airport Security & Screening
SNIPPET: “21-year old Benjamin Baines, Jr. was arrested on Sunday at Tampa International Airport after a TSA screener found a box cutter in a hollowed-out book in his backpack. The photograph at right was provided by the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority.
According to a report from the TSA, the books in Baines’ backpack included “Muhammad in the Bible,” “The Prophet’s Prayer” and “The Noble Qur’an.”
Thomas W. Krause of The Tampa Tribune broke the story this morning. “Airport security ran Benjamin Baines Jr.’s backpack through an X-ray machine and saw the image of a box cutter.”
Baines told federal authorities he forgot the box cutter was in the book.”
Riiiiiigght.
Thanks to Ali Veritas for the ping to this update:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976354/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976354/posts?page=40#40
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Tuesday
26 Feb 2008
“Faid Beydoun, Alias Miguel Garcia, Flees Feds & Leaps From Concourse in Miami”
By Annie Jacobsen in category Airport Security & Screening
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/433334.html
“MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
SNIPPET: “Traveler breaks arm, ribs after second-floor leap
A man with Lebanese and U.S. passports bolted from security screeners, jumping from the second-floor concourse at Miami’s airport.”
Posted on Tue, Feb. 26, 2008
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By DAVID OVALLE
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Miami-Dade police, in a news release late Monday, charged Beydoun with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence.
His jail record lists an alias: Miguel Garcia.
At least one of the other men hails from Bahrain. The two men described Beydoun as a well-known party promoter who knows the best U.S. night spots.”
The men had apparently been partying in Miami-Dade, spending lavishly.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “He had a Lebanese passport and a fraudulent U.S. passport, investigators said.”