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"Honolulu Airport Officials Find Blasting Cap In Man's Luggage"
Monday, June 21, 2004
Airport Officials Find Blasting Cap In Man's Luggage
The Associated Press
HONOLULU -- A man was arrested Sunday at Honolulu International Airport
after trying to take a blasting cap aboard a flight to the mainland.
State Department of Transportation spokesman Scott Ishikawa said the cap
that could be used as part of a training grenade was detected in the
man's carryon luggage by scanning equipment before he boarded ATA Flight
754 to Los Angeles.
Ishikawa said airport officials were also suspicious of the man because
he had bought a one-way ticket with cash. He said the man was taken to
the federal detention center, and the blasting cap was turned over to
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
A call seeking comment from the Honolulu office of the FBI wasn't
immediately returned.
Ishikawa said airport operations and flights were unaffected by the
incident.
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