Teen who 'mistakenly brought pipe bomb to airport' was ALLOWED to fly and then given probation
By Ryan Gorman23:58 15 Jan 2014, updated 00:12 16 Jan 2014
A source told MailOnline that he pleaded to the court that he simply forgot the bomb was in his bag and didn't mean to bring it to the airport.
- Skylar Murphy was caught Sept 20 with a pipe bomb at Edmonton International Airport
- Screeners confiscated it, allowed him to fly and did not contact police until four days later
- Mr Murphy was arrested one week later and told police he forgot it was in his bag, a source said
The misguided teen received one year of probation, was order to pay $500 to the burn unit of a local hospital and also a $100 fine, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Black powder and a pipe bomb were found in Mr Murphy’s luggage by Canadian Air Transport Security Authority screeners, but they did not detain him or immediately alert authorities because they are not permitted to, according to a CATSA official.
‘Screening officers do not have the authority to apprehend or detain passengers,’ CATSA spokesman Mathieu Larocque told the CBC in a statement. ‘When they see something potentially illegal, the(y) contact the police.’
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police were not contacted until four days later, Mr Murphy was arrested when returned to Edmonton Sept 27.
The lax approach to ensuring the safety of fliers infuriated the country’s top transportation official.
‘This individual should not have been allowed to board his flight, and it is unacceptable that CATSA waited four days before seeking the RCMP’s assistance,’ Transport Minister Lisa Raitt told the National Post.
Mr Larocque declined to comment further about the incident, saying only that ‘for security reasons, I can’t go into details about our procedures at the checkpoint, which include our protocols with the police.’
Mr Larocque separately admitted to MailOnline that was a procedural breakdown.
'We saw something unusual in his bag… we should have called the police right away, we didn’t.'
A call to the RCMP’s Edmonton Airport detachment was shuffled to an airport spokesperson. The RCMP officer who answered the phone said Mounties are not publicly commenting on the incident.
An airport spokesperson also declined to comment. A message left with the Crown Prosecutor's office was not returned.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...bomb-airport-allowed-fly-given-probation.html
cac gets caught with a fukking pipe bomb and STILL gets to catch a fukking flight and we actually have cacs out here who deny the existence of white privilege and even go as far as saying that whites are the new oppressed group.
just imagine if this was a black man caught with a damn pipe bomb.
I'm pissed just reading this shyt.
