Federal authorities say a Pennsylvania man was aware he had a prohibited explosive in a suitcase that he checked at an airport this week.
Marc Muffley, 40, faces federal charges after an explosive was found by officials at Lehigh Valley International Airport on Monday, authorities said. He was arrested at his home in Lansford on Monday night, hours after the incident, the FBI said.
Garcia said he was called to the airport Monday and arrived with his partner and two bomb technicians who arrested Muffley after they found an explosive. Stephan went on to say that Muffley had created a very dangerous situation when he checked in “very curious things,” including an explosive device that technicians said had two fuses. Muffley checked the bag with the intent to place it on the plane to Orlando, Florida, authorities have said.McDonald said there was no lab report, and it was just an opinion that the device was an explosive, saying it was instead “just a firework in a bag.
Court documents in Pennsylvania show he has a record of relatively minor offenses, including theft and assault. In a criminal complaint, prosecutors said the Transportation Security Administration at the airport contacted the FBI on Monday after TSA officials believed they had found an explosive in a suitcase that Muffley checked on a flight bound for Orlando Sanford International Airport in Florida.
The complaint said that based on the technician’s training, “this granular type of powder is consistent with a commercial grade firework. This granular powder is suspected to be a mixture of flash powder and the dark granulars that are used in commercial grade fireworks.”
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