Two passengers at LaGuardia airport in New York City tried to board a flight with several \u201cartfully concealed\u201d bladed weapons hidden in their clothes and baggage, TSA officials said. Interceptions of concealed weapons reached a record high last year.<\/p>\n
A man and the woman people, both from the Bronx, were detained by the Transportation Authority Administration (TSA) around 5:30 and 5:45 respectively on Monday.\u00a0 Both were arrested on fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon charges by the Port Authority Police Department, Newsday reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Miguel Rosario Munoz, 40, had a straight-edged razor hidden in the removable sole of his shoe and a blade hidden in a bottle of cologne.<\/p>\n Lizbeth Esteras, 18, had a razor blade tucked behind the band of her baseball cap hidden near the label.<\/p>\n Both had booked tickets for American Airlines flight to Miami on Monday morning.<\/p>\n On Tuesday morning, at nearby Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, a TSA spokeswoman posted a tweet saying that the TSA stopped a man from bringing a knife he was wearing on his neck onto a plane.<\/p>\n Interceptions of weapons at airports are becoming more common. In 2015, the TSA found 2,653 guns in carry-on bags at airport checkpoints. Perhaps even more worrying is the fact that 83 percent of those confiscated guns were found to be loaded, according to the agency\u2019s official blog.<\/p>\n Confiscation numbers have increased by 20 percent from 2014, and more than 300 percent from a decade earlier: only 660 firearms were intercepted in 2005.<\/p>\n The agency used the hashtag #TSAGoodCatch to post pictures of weapons that they confiscate, ranging from the mundane to strange and exotic items like throwing\u00a0stars<\/a> or \u201cbatarangs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>.\u00a0This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two passengers at LaGuardia airport in New York City tried to board a flight with several \u201cartfully concealed\u201d bladed weapons hidden in their clothes and baggage, TSA officials said. Interceptions of concealed weapons reached a record high last year. A man and the woman people, both from the Bronx, were detained by the Transportation Authority […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-223281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}