Airport Screener Fails to Detect Butcher Knife
From Times Wire Reports
A security screener at Newark Liberty International Airport failed to spot a butcher knife in a passenger’s purse and was removed from the post for retraining, officials said.
Katrina Bell, 27, had cleared security and was waiting with her sister to board a flight Saturday morning when she realized she was carrying a knife.
Bell put the knife in her bag “just in case” before going on a blind date earlier that week, her sister and travel companion, Tikisha Bell Gowens, 30, said.
The women were not charged.
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