A West Virginia woman was stopped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers when they discovered a loaded gun among the woman's carry-on items at the security checkpoint at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport on Thursday, Nov. 4. The handgun was loaded with four bullets.
It was the sixth handgun that TSA officers have caught at the airport so far this year, which doubles the number of guns that were caught in 2019 when significantly more people were flying prior to the pandemic.
When the gun was detected, TSA officers alerted the Westmoreland County Park Police who took possession of the gun and questioned the woman, a resident of Morgantown, West Virginia. She now faces a stiff federal financial penalty for carrying a gun to the security checkpoint.
