Gun Found in Official’s Bag at St. Louis Airport
Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —
Missouri’s state treasurer says his haste to catch a plane in St. Louis made him forget about a loaded semiautomatic pistol in his carry-on bag. Police slowed him down.
“It was very embarrassing,” state Treasurer Wendell Bailey said Thursday.
The 9-millimeter pistol was detected this week when Bailey’s bag passed through a metal detector at a Lambert Airport security gate, officials said.
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