U.S Marine caught at the airport with gun and Bomb making materials

[Thrill]

BOSTON (AP) -- State police and security officials say a U.S. Marine was arrested Sunday morning at Boston's Logan International Airport after screeners found bomb-making materials, a gun and ammunition in his checked baggage.

Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Ann Davis says 22-year-old Cpl. Justin Reed, of Jacksonville, N.C., was booked on US Airways Flight 877 to Charlotte, N.C. Davis says Reed arrived in Boston on a flight from Las Vegas earlier Sunday morning. Davis says the TSA is trying to determine why the items were not detected during a screening in Las Vegas.

State police at Logan were notified about the items by the TSA screeners.

Reed was charged with possession of an infernal machine and possession of a concealed weapon in a secure area of an airport. Bail was set at $50,000.

http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/stories/wcnc-041909-sjf-marinedetained.efb1ee36.html

Kind of sounds like the thing in the DHS report huh?

[EFerrari]

1. 22 years old.

:(

[bluestateguy]

2. All of the whackadoos come out of the woodwork on April 19-20

Happens almost every year.

[babylonsister]

6. Why? nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Has to do with Hitler.. and his birth

[babylonsister]

25. Baloney. That sucks for people born on the 19th or 20th.

Buncha bullshit.

[bluestateguy]

20. and Columbine, and OKC and Waco

and perversely enough, the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. damn, I didn't realize lexington and concord

hell of a coincidence...

I am sure the wackos are not aware of that one though...

:-)

[DeepBlueC]

3. an infernal machine?

what a quaint locution.

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. I think "infernal contraption" was considered archaic. n/t

[MichaelHarris]

4. Wasn't

the right mad because someone said this may happen?

[Cali_Democrat]

8. Yep.

Another reason to ignore poutrage from the right. They are full of it.

[malaise]

17. Ding ding

That is all

[babylonsister]

5. Just...wow. Cry for help? nt

[doctor jazz]

7. OMFG, an INFERNAL MACHINE

:silly:

I have one of them in my garage.



This story has more holes than a 20 pound hunk of Swiss cheese

[XemaSab]

10. It's a bad day when "Alice" from the Brady Bunch

foils your evil plans. x(

[Canuckistanian]

11. Now, now, let's wait for the trial

There may be a perfectly mundane reason why he was carrying a bomb and a gun onto a plane.

[babylonsister]

13. !

So true! Mundane, to boot!

[Cali_Democrat]

18. Just a regular, everyday bomb-making and gun-toting airline passenger

No big deal.

[doctor jazz]

19. He wasn't 'carrying' any of that stuff (according to the story...it was in checked baggage)

the gun and ammo is not illegal in checked baggage and there's no information about the so-called bomb-making 'material' which might turn out to be a cardboard mailing tube and a bottle of H2O2. They conveniently don't say what was in his checked baggage. :grr:
(I'm not defending him because I think bombs are okay on planes, I'm saying no evidence he did anything wrong has yet been provided)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

23. Other than not declaring the firearm

That's a pretty big no-no which military personal know better than to make. As to what the alleged bomb making material is I'll wait and see. Could be anything, really.

What I do find interesting is that his luggage was supposed to be scanned going on plane in Los Vegas and yet it wasn't flagged. The items were only found by a misrouting of his luggage which caused it to be scanned a second time.

[47of74]

12. I wonder what Bill-O and Harold Hill - AKA Glenn Beck - will have to say about this

I wonder what sort of verbal gymnastics those two reich wing BSers will engage in about this?

[csziggy]

14. Wonder if this is the same guy?

A picture at this link - distributing aid in Baghdad - page 6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/1747712/US-Army-Oct15

It is hard to reconcile someone that would help with that kind of aid with what he had in his luggage.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Nope, that is the first infantry, and army unit

this is a Marine

Department of the Navy

[csziggy]

21. LOL at myself - shows my lack of knowledge about military!

At least I realized that the guy in the Coast Guard with the same name was not the same person. But it would have been interesting if it were, since that guy is a chef, has won awards and cooks for some prestigious groups. It could have been in the realm of possibility he could have a gig to cook for the President and be ready to set up a device. :scared:

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. Coasties are part of the DOD in time of war

but really part of DHS

Glad you don't know much about the military

At times I envy people who don't

:-)

As to a chef bringing in a device... LOL... after the security I got to see in Mexico City... that falls somewhere between a snow ball surviving in hell