A Lexington man was stopped by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) with a handgun loaded with six bullets at the Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport checkpoint on Monday, July 22.
Officials say the TSA officer who was staffing the checkpoint X-ray monitor detected the .32 caliber handgun inside the man’s carry-on bag.
TSA officials notified the airport police, which responded to the checkpoint, confiscated the handgun and cited the man on a weapons charge.
It marked the second gun that TSA officers have detected at the airport so far this year.
In 2018, six guns were caught at the airport’s checkpoint.
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