Posted on 01/18/2012 8:42:23 PM PST by quantim
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A 65-year-old lawyer was arrested Wednesday for carrying a loaded handgun aboard an American Airlines jet at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Judith Kenney was released later Wednesday on her own recognizance, said her attorney, Dallas lawyer David Finn.
Kenney carries a handgun for protection but had forgotten that it was in a computer bag she carried on board the plane, he said. She has no criminal history, he said.
Screeners at a security checkpoint had detected a gun in a woman's carry-on bag but she "picked up the bag and left the checkpoint before the screening process was over," said Greg Soule, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration, which operates the checkpoints. When TSA screeners spot a gun in a bag, they are supposed to seize the bag and notify police, he said.
Officials got a photo of Kenney from a closed-circuit video system and showed it to airport employees. She was taken into custody by DFW Airport police about an hour and 40 minutes later, Soule said.
An airline spokesman said Wednesday that the plane was headed for the runway when it returned to the gate and was met by airport police.
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Too busy ripping off shoes of aged multiple sclerosis people in wheelchairs.
I'll bet I'd still be in a federal lockup or at Lou Sterret, or down $10K for bond.
But I'm not a lawyer.
/johnny
Next time, DRIVE from Dallas to Houston. Screw the TSA.
A handgun? Sheesh, I can’t even get through with toothpaste.
Sounds like TSA is a little slow on the draw...
I hate when that happens.
Her website “under construction”
Good luck getting clients with this publicity
The TSA are just failed drumstick fryers... How can you expect them to successfully learn another menial job??
What happened? They saw the gun but were distracted by something else...a 6 year old girl they wanted to feel up? Or maybe an old woman in a wheel chair?
What happened? They saw the gun but were distracted by something else...a 6 year old girl they wanted to feel up? Or maybe an old woman in a wheel chair?
Bingo.
Our daughter got on an AA plane in Austin with her TAZER inside her purse. The TSA missed it and she flew to California before discovering it in its holster.
The Knife Smuggler!
I just flew without any checked baggage to Munich and back and forgot that I had my Swiss Army Knife in my pocket. I got through fine, then discovered that it was in my pocket while in Germany.
Now, I have already given up at least a dozen very nice Victorinox knives over the years and was not about to lose this one... But now I had to fly back that same day and had no checked bags to put it inside of...
So I decided to try to sneak it innocently back on the plane and did it. Too easy.
How did I get it past the normally very thorough Germans?
Simple.
I had a half drank bottle water in my computer bag which went through the x-ray first... Followed by a small mountain of keys, cellphone, wristwatch, etc. in the tray which also held my computer.
They immediately spotted the water... AHAAAA!!! As they seized my bottle of water... I feigned surprise and asked if I could drink it... They let me drink the water while they watched carefully... All the while the conveyor belt moved past them with my metal stuff being now completely ignored, and as I threw the empty bottle in the trash bin, carefully scooped up my keys, KNIFE, cellphone, belt buckle and moved on.
I flew home with my favorite Victorinox Swiss Army Knife in my pocket.
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