Newsstand - EWR Baggage Handler Is Charged With Smuggling Handguns




tom911
Jun 12, 03, 12:59 am
NEWARK, June 11 — A baggage handler at Newark Liberty International Airport smuggled at least 18 handguns on flights from Alabama to New Jersey, where he sold them to criminals, the authorities said today.

The man, Antonio Marquette Lewis, 30, an American Airlines employee, was arrested at the airport on Monday and charged with violating federal firearms laws, said James R. Needles, assistant special agent in charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/nyregion/12SMUG.html


bdschobel
Jun 12, 03, 6:05 am
Hmm, no TSA involvement? Maybe they were too busy taking scissors away from ordinary, law-abiding travelers to catch this guy.

Bruce



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