BOSTON — A woman was caught attempting to carry table knives packed inside her knee brace onto a flight at Logan airport, according to Transportation Security Administration officials.
When the woman, from London, put her knee brace on the conveyor belt through the X-ray machine, officials say the TSA crew at the checkpoint recognized the knives hidden in the knee brace on the monitor.
TSA officers asked the woman what was inside the knee brace and said she laughed in response. The officers found four table knives 'artfully concealed' inside the neoprene knee brace, according to a release.
“The officer staffing the X-ray machine spotted something unusual and it turned out that he was spot-on," said Robert Allison, TSA’s federal security director for Massachusetts. "The TSA officer who pulled out the knives showed them to the woman and she laughed, but I can assure you that trying to artfully conceal any sort of weapon in an effort to get it onto an airplane is no laughing matter.”
Officers confiscated the knives and the woman was not allowed to board her flight to Paris.
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