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| Atlanta airport screening supervisor fired for missing gun |
| 2002-08-28 |
| An airport screening supervisor in Atlanta was fired because he missed a loaded gun during a hand-check of a bag belonging to a woman charged with carrying the weapon into a terminal at Philadelphia International Airport. The appeal process is probably under way right now... Nancy Keller, 37, of Huntersville, N.C., was detained Sunday morning after she put a carry-on bag containing a .357-caliber handgun through an X-ray machine. Keller got the weapon past security screeners in Atlanta. A woman screening bags in Atlanta noticed something strange on her screen and alerted a supervisor, who did a hand-check of Keller's bag and "simply missed" the weapon and another clip of ammunition. There were some tweezers and nail clippers there, so he confiscated them... Keller told an FBI agent that the gun belonged to her husband and she wasn't aware it was inside the bag. She was charged with boarding an aircraft with a concealed weapon. "Didja pack yer own bags?" "Nope. My husband dunnit. Any guns are his." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |