Tampa:Muslim Student Tries to Get on Plane With 7" Butcher Knife

“Man charged with trying to bring knife onto plane at TIA”

TBO.com

Published: June 16, 2009

SNIPPET: “TAMPA - Federal authorities have charged a 24-year-old man with trying to bring a seven-inch knife aboard a plane at Tampa International Airport.

Raed Abduhl-Rahman Alsaif was arrested June 4 as he tried to board US Airways flight 1077 to Phoenix and Portland, Ore., according to a criminal complaint.”

Off (Thread) Topic and not related to this thread incident:

http://www.kpho.com/news/19661608/detail.html

“2 Charged After Gun Found On Plane”
Flight 1195 Bound From Philadelphia To Phoenix
Omadelle Nelson
Reporter, KPHO.com

POSTED: 4:00 pm MST June 4, 2009
UPDATED: 5:44 pm MST June 4, 2009

SNIPPET: “PHOENIX — The FBI has charged two men after investigators said Thursday the pair smuggled a gun onto an airplane at Philadelphia International Airport.

Flight 1195, bound for Phoenix, was delayed several hours.

“At this point, you have to wonder, what does get by?” said passenger Tom McDonell, who arrived with the flight at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.

The more he thinks about what happened, McDonnell said he’s disturbed that a gun got past a security checkpoint and into a Philadelphia airport terminal.

“If the woman didn’t notice anything it would’ve been a very much different situation,” said McDonnell.

U.S. Airways employee Roshid Milledge and passenger Damien Young have been charged with getting a concealed gun onto a departing plane.

Witnesses saw Milledge hand Young a bag at the gate right before he boarded.

Once investigators got wind of the exchange, they stopped the plane and took the passenger into custody.

“It was almost like a non-event when he left the plane, and then we actually taxied back out for 15 minutes and then taxied back in and then everybody then deplaned and searched,” said McDonnell.

Investigators said they found a semi-automatic handgun in Young’s bag.”

Adding to post no. 25:

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jun/19/fbi-investigates-attempts-smuggle-weapons-planes/

“FBI investigates attempts to smuggle weapons on planes”

By HOWARD ALTMAN
Published: June 19, 2009

SNIPPET: “The FBI is looking into whether there is any connection between two arrests - one here and one in Philadelphia - of men trying to smuggle weapons onto airplanes.

The arrests both took place June 4. Both planes were bound for Phoenix.

In Tampa, federal authorities charged a 24-year-old man with trying to bring a 7-inch knife aboard a plane at Tampa International Airport.

Raed Abduhl-Rahman Alsaif was arrested June 4 as he tried to board US Airways Flight 1077 to Phoenix and Portland, Ore., according to a criminal complaint.”

SNIPPET: “On the same day In Philadelphia, a passenger and an airline employee were charged with trying to smuggle a Smith & Wesson 9- mm semi-automatic handgun through an employees’ entrance at Philadelphia International Airport. The plan, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia, was for Roshid Milledge, 38, of Philadelphia - a US Airways employee - to smuggle the gun into the airport so that it would be available for Damien Young, 29, of Phoenix, aboard US Airways Flight 1195, bound for Phoenix.”

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