2 caught trying to bring loaded guns on planes in Md

The Washington County Sheriff’s Department confiscated the firearm and he too was arrested on weapons charges.

The boy and his family were going through a checkpoint with other passengers when Transportation Security Administration officers made the shocking discovery at Jacksonville’s global airport.

The man, identified only as a Lutherville resident, was ticketed to fly to Long Island-MacArthur Airport in New York.

TSA officers at HGR detected this 9 mm gun in a traveler’s carry-on bag on August. 6, 2015.

Authorities say the men were stopped at Hagerstown Regional and Baltimore Washington International-Thurgood Marshal airports on Thursday. They said the gun was discovered after the baggage passed through the x-ray machine.

A small hatchet was also intercepted from a 16-year-old’s carry-on bag Wednesday at Orlando global Airport, Koshetz said.

Hatchets, knives, grenades and guns are not permitted in carry-on bags, TSA officials said.

Police say a Queens man has been arrested in connection with a bias attack on a gay couple in SoHo. The initial investigation indicates the incidents were unrelated. No one was hurt and airport operations were not impacted, the Office of Public Affairs said.

Still, airport security officers issued a reminder of items that are not allowed to be carried onto a flight.

“Firearms, firearm parts and ammunition-are not permitted in carry-on bags, but can be transported in checked bags if they are unloaded, properly packed and declared to the airline”, the TSA states.

Firearms must be unloaded, packed in a hard-sided case, locked and packed separately from ammunition.