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August 12, 2024 | Local Press Release
ALLENTOWN, Pa.—It has been an extremely busy two months at Lehigh Valley International Airport with nine of the Top 10 busiest days at the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint recorded in June and July of this month. “Checkpoint volume…
August 12, 2024 | Local Press Release
RICHMOND, Va. – A Chester, Va., man was cited by police on Saturday, August 10, after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Richmond International Airport intercepted a gun among the traveler’s carry-on items. The 9mm firearm was…
August 9, 2024 | Local Press Release
RICHMOND, Va. – A Goochland, Va., man was cited by police yesterday, August 8, after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Richmond International Airport intercepted a gun among the traveler’s carry-on items. The 9mm firearm was…
August 9, 2024 | Local Press Release
ARLINGTON, Va. – A Silver Spring, Md., woman was cited by police after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport intercepted a gun among the woman’s carry-on items. The 9mm firearm was loaded…
August 9, 2024 | Local Press Release
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A Kentucky man was stopped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Huntington Tri-State Airport with a loaded firearm in his carry-on bag on Thursday, August 8. The 9mm handgun was loaded with six bullets…
August 8, 2024 | Local Press Release
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Baro, a 9-year-old German Wirehaired Pointer, is ready for his last run as a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) explosives detection canine who specializes in screening passengers at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT…
August 8, 2024 | National Press Release
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced its TSA PreCheck® Trusted Traveler program surpassed 20 million active members, setting a new record for the program that launched in December 2013. This brings the total number…
August 8, 2024 | Local Press Release
NEW ORLEANS — Do you have a star on your Louisiana driver’s license? If not, there’s still time to get your REAL ID-compliant driver’s license with that star on it. But it’s better to get it sooner, rather than later. Travelers who want to board an…
August 7, 2024 | Local Press Release
SALEM, Oregon - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed a new, high-tech security screening unit at Salem Municipal Airport (SLE). This unit will screen the checked baggage of travelers departing SLE. “We are pleased that…
August 7, 2024 | Local Press Release
ALLENTOWN, Pa.—Travelers flying out of Lehigh Valley International Airport are packing prohibited items in their carry-on bags when most of those items should be packed in a checked bag. Prohibited items trigger an alarm on the checkpoint X-ray…
August 7, 2024 | Local Press Release
NEWARK, N.J. –  A Westchester County, N.Y., man was arrested by police on Tuesday (August 6), when Transportation Security Administration officers at Newark Liberty International Airport intercepted a firearm among the man’s carry-on items. The…
August 7, 2024 | Local Press Release
DULLES, Va. –  A Falls Church, Va., man was cited by police after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) intercepted a firearm among the man’s carry-on items on Monday, August 5.…
August 6, 2024 | Local Press Release
PHILADELPHIA – A Montgomery County, Pa., man was cited by police yesterday (August 5) at Philadelphia International Airport after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers detected a firearm among the man’s carry-on items at one of the…
August 6, 2024 | Local Press Release
AVOCA, Pa.—The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is partnering with Landline to transport by bus screened passengers, their carry-on items and their checked baggage from the secured area of Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport into…
August 5, 2024 | Local Press Release
DETROIT – Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) discovered eight firearms at security checkpoints in the month of July. In addition to those eight, another firearm was detected Saturday, Aug. 3…
August 5, 2024 | Local Press Release
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A California man was sentenced in federal court today after he was subdued by several passengers and flight attendants when he tried to open the exit door on an American Airlines flight en route to Washington, D.C., forcing the…
August 5, 2024 | Local Press Release
NORFOLK, Va. – Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Norfolk International Airport intercepted two firearms from being carried onto flights at Norfolk International Airport on Sunday, August 4. A Suffolk, Va., man was stopped…
August 2, 2024 | Local Press Release
PHILADELPHIA—It has been an extremely busy summer at Philadelphia International Airport with two  days so far exceeding 50,000 individuals coming through the security checkpoints.    “Checkpoint volume has seen quite an increase at…
August 2, 2024 | Local Press Release
NEW YORK – A Pennsylvania man was arrested by police after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at John F. Kennedy International Airport intercepted a loaded firearm among the man’s carry-on items yesterday, August 1. It was the…
August 2, 2024 | Local Press Release
ROANOKE, Va. —  The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed new technology that confirms the validity of a traveler’s identification (ID) and confirms their flight information in real time at Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional…
August 2, 2024 | Local Press Release
NEW YORK – A Queens, N.Y., man was arrested by police after his backpack alarmed for a loaded firearm at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday, July 31. When the backpack was identified as…
August 1, 2024 | Local Press Release
NEWARK, N.J. –  A Tennessee man was arrested by police this morning (August 1), when Transportation Security Administration officers at Newark Liberty International Airport intercepted a firearm among the man’s carry-on items. The 9mm handgun…
July 30, 2024 | Local Press Release
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) is seeing a significant spike in checkpoint volume this summer that is exceeding pre-pandemic levels by thousands of travelers per day.…
July 30, 2024 | Local Press Release
AVOCA, Pa.– Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport intercepted a 9mm handgun loaded with six bullets at the airport checkpoint yesterday, Monday, July 29. It was the second firearm that…
July 30, 2024 | Local Press Release
PITTSBURGH – Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Pittsburgh International Airport intercepted two more loaded guns at the security checkpoint recently, one on Friday, July 26, and the other on Sunday, July 28.  “Since mid-…

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