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Gun found in bag at CLE Hopkins Int'l Airport

Posted at 8:21 PM, Mar 28, 2016
and last updated 2016-03-28 20:21:30-04

A passenger was arrested on March 21 after the Transportation Security Administration reported finding a loaded gun inside a carry on bag.

Around 7:30 p.m., a loaded Smith and Wesson gun was found in a passenger's carry on at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport north checkpoint, the Transportation Security Administration reported. 

TSA said the passenger was arrested on a state charge. 

According to TSA, this was the sixth gun found at a Hopkins checkpoint in 2016. In 2015, a total of 10 guns were found at Hopkins.