Man caught boarding plane with weapons

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- U.S. authorities have charged a man with attempting to board a flight from Puerto Rico with weapons including a stun gun, a switchblade knife and four box cutters.

Pol was scheduled to take a JetBlue flight to Boston when he was arrested on Monday. In addition to the knives agents found pepper spray and a flight simulator program in his luggage.

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Puerto Rican Officials Scrap Millions of Birth Certificates
AOLNews ^ | April 21, 2010 | Mara Gay

Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010 10:37:58 AM by rightwingintelligentsia

(April 21) — In a dramatic bid to end fraud, identity theft and illegal immigration, Puerto Rico is voiding all birth certificates issued before July 1, 2010 — forcing more than 5 million people to apply for new ones.

The move will “protect the identity of all Puerto Ricans born on the island, and at the same time help the federal government with national security issues,” Luis Balzac, spokesman for the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, said in a phone interview with AOL News.

According to the U.S. departments of State and Homeland Security, Puerto Rican birth certificates account for about 40 percent of all cases of passport fraud every year, ABC reports.

“There are so many [birth certificates] floating around. ... A lot fall into the hands of unscrupulous individuals,” Rosemary Macray, a State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs spokeswoman, told ABC. “We’re very pleased that the [Puerto Rican] government has taken on this initiative.”

Under the law, which was passed in December, some 4 million island residents and another 1.2 Puerto Ricans living in the United States will lose their current birth certificates. They must apply for new ones that have been redesigned to be less susceptible to fraud.

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>>”...and New York City information cards...”

If this is FBI speak meaning “instrument approach plates,” that raises the incident to a whole new level. He can no longer be considered a simple minded fool.

He is either intending something nefarious, on his own; or he was being used as a mule for Terrorists. How many people can use a computer and still be unaware of what cannot be carried on an aircraft? Are there no Box Cutters for sale in Pawtucket? They need to be imported?

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