TAMPA – A passenger at Tampa International Airport was arrested Sunday morning after authorities found a knife in his carry-on bag.

Forty-three-year-old Phillippe Francois Martinez of Clearwater is charged with carrying a concealed weapon.

Officials say TSA screeners who saw the knife initially detained the wrong person and carry-on bag.

When they did not find a knife, authorities were able to identify the correct passenger after viewing security video.

Martinez had already boarded his American Airlines flight to Miami en route to San Juan.

He was removed from the flight and officials found the knife in his bag.

The incident caused flight and screening functions to be delayed.

Read more: http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/local_news/tia-passenger-arrested-after-screeners-find-knife-in-bag#ixzz1TmCXKfed

Glad it wasn’t an IED or a biologic, as much time as it took these highly paid government servants charged with keeping us safe (since we can’t do it ourselves) he could have done all kinds of damage.

And what’s going to happen when you are the “wrong guy” detained in your GA airplane — going to a funeral, or a wedding or your kid’s graduation…  heartfelt apologies from the TSA for the mix up.

I doubt it.

Keep the faxes and calls going, the only reason you haven’t seen LASP II out yet is all the damage control the DHS and TSA have been doing over their screw ups.