Airport passenger hid box cutter in book

Tampa, Florida, Airport passenger hid box cutter in book’s false enclosure, tried to board flight

The National Terror Alert Response Center reported Wednesday, Feb. 20, on a Clearwater, Florida, man who tried to board a Southwest Airlines flight with a weapon hidden in a book.

Officials said the man was safely arrested last weekend after airport police found a box-cutter knife hidden inside a hollowed-out area of a book.

Benjamin Baines, 21, was attempting to go through a security checkpoint inside Concourse C Sunday, Feb 17, at around 7:30 a.m., when a TSA screener saw the knife inside his backpack, according to his arrest report.

A search of the backpack found the knife inside a hollowed out book called “Fear, Itself.”

After initially telling airport police that his cousin had made the hidden compartment, Baines later admitted he had made it, according to the report.

Baines told police he made the compartment to hide his money and marijuana so that his roommate wouldn’t steal it, police say.

Baines told airport police he forgot the box cutter was inside the book, according to the report.

Baines was charged with carrying a carrying a concealed weapon. A Bible, Koran, and other religious books were found as well as several pages of rap lyrics that Baines had wrote, according to the report.

Baines explained that the lyrics, which referenced police, narcotics, weapons and killings, were “lies” and that rap music writers have to play the part, according to Baines’s arrest report.

Some joke about the box cutters and tight airport security measures American travelers live with, but they are living with them - which seems better than some obvious alternatives.

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