| Thomas Butler, 70, detained because of a suspicious item in his luggage, had once been charged with illegally transporting bubonic plague. ... |
| MIAMI - Officials decided to shut down much of Miami International Airport after a database showed a scientist with a suspicious item in his luggage had once been charged with illegally transporting bubonic plague, a senior law enforcement official s ... |
![]() | A scientist detained at Miami's airport because of a suspicious item in his luggage had once been charged with illegally transporting bubonic plague, a senior law enforcement official said. Miami - Law - Law Enforcement - Miami International Airport ... |
| (Sept. 3) -- Miami's airport is back in full operation today after four terminals were ordered evacuated when a luggage screener spotted something suspicious in a passenger's bag. A 70-year-old scientist once acquitted of illegally transporting bubon ... |
![]() | A scientist who sparked a security alert at Miami airport for storing a metal bacteria canister in his luggage has a previous conviction for illegally transporting samples of bubonic plague, according to police. ... |
| Thomas Butler, the passenger who triggered alert at Miami International Airport, spent two years in prison for illegally transporting bubonic plague pathogens. He was found to be innocent of any offense in the aiport scare, however. Miami Internation ... |
![]() | A scientist who had stored a metal canister in his luggage was detained at Miami airport during a security scare that shut down America's biggest international gateway. ... |
| MIAMI (AP) — A scientist has been detained at the Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, prompting an evacuation, a government official said. The FBI and Miami-Dade police ... |
| A scientist has been detained at the Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, prompting an evacuation, a government official said. ... |
| Airport fully reopened early Friday A scientist has been detained at the Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, prompting an evacuation, a government official said. ... |
| TSA: 1 in custody after suspicious item found in luggage at Miami airport prompts evacuation Miami International Airport - Transportation Security Administration - Aviation - Business - Airports ... |
| Miami -- A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport's six concourses along with an onsite hotel were evacuated after a screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag, authorities said. ... |
| Four of the six concourses were emptied and roadways closed after a screener saw something suspicious in a checked bag. A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport's six concourses along with an onsite hotel were evacuated after ... |
| (Sept. 3) -- Miami's airport was back in full operation today after four terminals were ordered evacuated when a luggage screener spotted something suspicious in a passenger's bag. One person has been detained. ... |
| A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport's six concourses along with an onsite hotel were evacuated after a screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag, authorities said. ... |
![]() | AP - Federal officials say a passenger has been taken into custody after screeners detected something suspicious in a checked bag at Miami International Airport. ... |
| A government official says a scientist has been detained in Miami after screeners found a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb. ... |
| A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport's six concourses were evacuated after a screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag, authorities said. ... |
| A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport's six concourses were evacuated after a screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag, authorities said. ... |
![]() | Authorities took a passenger into custody after screeners at Miami International Airport detected something suspicious in a checked bag, officials said early Friday. Miami International Airport - Aviation - Airports - Business - Transportation and L ... |
| A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport's six concourses were evacuated after a screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag, authorities said. ... |
| Four of the six concourses at Miami International Airport closed for several hours during a period that stretched from Thursday night into early Friday morning. ... |
| Passenger detained; bomb squad spent hours scouring airport ... |
![]() | A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport's six concourses were evacuated after a screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag, authorities said. ... |
| A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport's six concourses were evacuated after a screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag, authorities said. ... |
![]() | AP - The suspicions airport security officials had when they saw the metal canister grew when they learned about the man who brought it in from the Middle East: a scientist who sparked a bioterrorism scare after he reported missing vials of plague s ... |
| MIAMI (AP) — A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport's six concourses were evacuated after a screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag, authorities said. ... |
| Federal officials say a passenger has been taken into custody after screeners detected something suspicious in a checked bag at Miami International Airport. ... |
| The suspicions airport-security officials had when they saw the metal canister grew when they learned about the man who brought it ... ... |
| Bomb squad investigators were at Miami International Airport on Friday after a suspicious item was spotted in a baggage screening area, authorities said. ... |
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![]() | AP - A bomb squad investigated a report of a suspicious package after police evacuated four of six concourses at Miami International Airport for several hours on the eve of the Labor Day travel period, an airport spokesman said Friday. ... |
| MIAMI — A spokesman for Miami International Airport says four of its six concourses have been evacuated as a police bomb squad investigates a report of a suspicious item. Airport spokesman Greg Chin told The Associated Press early Friday that a bomb ... |
| A spokesman for Miami International Airport says four of its six concourses have been evacuated as a police bomb squad investigates a report of a suspicious item. ... |
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![]() | A baggage handler at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of items from passenger luggage. Michael Hegstad, 23, was taken into custody after officers saw him remove ... |
| A passenger was detained after a screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag.br ... |
| Screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag, authorities say ... |
| A suspicious package had police evacuating passengers out of two concourses at Miami International Airport Thursday night. According to Miami-Dade Police, the package was located in the concourse, and as a precautionary measure they took passengers ... |
| The New York City police bomb squad is looking at a suspicious Mercedes parked in midtown Manhattan and has blocked off traffic near the vehicle. ... |
| The New York City police bomb squad is looking at a suspicious Mercedes parked in midtown Manhattan and has blocked off traffic near the vehicle. ... |
| New York City police are inspecting a Mercedes parked in midtown Manhattan and have blocked off the area around the car. The vehicle has been parked since about 6 a.m. Thursday near the intersection of 51st Street and Park Avenue. The trunk appeared ... |
| New York City police are inspecting a Mercedes parked in midtown Manhattan and have blocked off the area around the car. ... |
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| A black Mercedes sedan parked on Manhattan’s Park Avenue that was reported in a 911 call as suspicious was determined to be harmless, New York police said today. The investigation of the car, parked two blocks from JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s headquarters ... |
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| Colorado Springs police sent the bomb squad to the Academy for Advanced and Creative Learning for a suspicious package that ended up being simply part of a science project. ... |