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TSA reveals top unusual finds at airport security checkpoints in 2024
The Transportation Security Administration released the "top catches" from 2024 with prohibited items found by agents across the country. See some tips for travelers.
TSA highlights ‘10 Best Catches’ at airport checkpoints last year
The Transportation Security Authority (TSA) recently released a video highlighting the “10 best catches” of prohibited items found at airport security in 2024. “While most people are dropping their list of what was HOT last
Strange discovery lands Newark Airport on TSA's top unusual finds list for 2024
The TSA said a gun frame had been jammed in the bottom of a boot, below a sock that was stuffed in behind it in an effort to conceal the weapon. The rest of the handgun — the slide, spring and gun magazine loaded with 12 bullets — was detected among plastic building blocks inside a Black Panther LEGO set.
Newark Airport makes TSA's top 10 list for unusual finds
The reason for this distinction is an incident in October where a Mississippi man attempted to hide gun parts in a boot behind a sock, while concealing other parts in a Lego box.
Local airport makes TSA’s Top 10 list of unusual checkpoint finds
How do you forget that you put a knife in your shoe? A passenger at the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport did just that, and the incident put the airport on the Transportation Security Administration’s top 10 list of most unusual items detected at airport security checkpoints in 2024.

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