Gun found in airport bathroom
The gun was not smuggled through security. The person who lost it was authorized to carry it and had cleared security at another airport.
The SIG-Sauer is one of the most deadly and accurate handguns in the world. rolleyes: ) Thursday one was found in one of the women's bathrooms on concourse A. It was sitting by itself and police said that anyone could have picked it up.
"That's a pretty serious offense, it's pretty irresponsible to leave your gun," said Stuart Miller a passenger.
Police and airport officials said that an officer from the Fairfax County Police Department in Virginia was transporting a female prisoner. They stopped at Charlotte Douglas to catch a connecting flight.
That's when the officer went to the ladies room where she apparently forgot her service pistol.
"I think the odds of someone finding it are pretty high, but the odds of someone finding it who has malicious intent is probably negligibly small," said Miller.
A member of the cleaning crew found the gun. Police said only minutes passed by when it was left and when it was found.
All of the people 6NEWS talked to believe the officer should be punished.
Passenger Charity Mills doesn’t think she should have been flying at all.
"Personally I don't think that officers with guns should be transporting prisoners on flights that the rest of us are flying on," said Mills.
6NEWS has not heard from the T.S.A or the Fairfax Police Department.
Officers familiar with the case don't think this infraction is enough to cost the officer her job assuming that she has a relatively clean work record.
The name of the officer has not been released. The gun is in the custody of the Charlotte Police Department.
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The gun was not smuggled through security. The person who lost it was authorized to carry it and had cleared security at another airport.
The SIG-Sauer is one of the most deadly and accurate handguns in the world. rolleyes: ) Thursday one was found in one of the women's bathrooms on concourse A. It was sitting by itself and police said that anyone could have picked it up.
"That's a pretty serious offense, it's pretty irresponsible to leave your gun," said Stuart Miller a passenger.
Police and airport officials said that an officer from the Fairfax County Police Department in Virginia was transporting a female prisoner. They stopped at Charlotte Douglas to catch a connecting flight.
That's when the officer went to the ladies room where she apparently forgot her service pistol.
"I think the odds of someone finding it are pretty high, but the odds of someone finding it who has malicious intent is probably negligibly small," said Miller.
A member of the cleaning crew found the gun. Police said only minutes passed by when it was left and when it was found.
All of the people 6NEWS talked to believe the officer should be punished.
Passenger Charity Mills doesn’t think she should have been flying at all.
"Personally I don't think that officers with guns should be transporting prisoners on flights that the rest of us are flying on," said Mills.
6NEWS has not heard from the T.S.A or the Fairfax Police Department.
Officers familiar with the case don't think this infraction is enough to cost the officer her job assuming that she has a relatively clean work record.
The name of the officer has not been released. The gun is in the custody of the Charlotte Police Department.
http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/stories/wcnc-111105-jmn-gun_found_in_airport.4ee13c75.html