Knife found hidden deep inside laptop in US airport with owner claiming ‘he had no idea’
THE U.S. Transportation Security Administration has found a knife cleverly hiding inside a laptop at airport security.
The owner of the laptop reportedly claimed he had no idea about the weapon that was lurking in the laptop.
During an X-ray of the electronic device, the TSA agent noticed the knife in the bag, Techspot reported.
Upon further examination, when the knife could not be found anywhere else in the bag, each item the traveler had was scanned individually, and the knife showed up when the laptop was X-rayed alone.
At first, the man, from Williamsburg, Virginia, reportedly denied traveling with the weapon.
After some pressing, he admitted the knife was his own.
TSA wrote: “After assembling tools that could disassemble the laptop, a double-edged knife was found to have been artfully concealed inside the guts of the computer.”
As for the traveling man, he “now faces a stiff federal financial civil penalty.”
This can be a fine between $530 and $2,250 for ordinary artful concealment.
However, this extreme circumstance of hiding it in laptop could be considered extraordinary concealment – like hiding a weapon in a book – which can come with a charge of $5,320 to $10,700.
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He was also a member of TSA pre-check.
“If a traveler with a weapon is a member of TSA PreCheck®, that individual will lose their TSA PreCheck privileges,” the TSA stated in their press release.
The laptop reportedly measured 1.18 inches thick.