The Brief
- The TSA recovered a folding knife that a passenger allegedly tried to sneak onto a flight.
- The passenger had stashed the knife inside a prosthetic leg, the agency said.
- An off-duty law enforcement officer had spotted the passenger trying to hide it and alerted the TSA.
An eagle-eyed off-duty law enforcement officer certainly stepped up after seeing where a passenger had hidden a knife prior to trying to get onto a flight in Hawaii.
Big picture view:
While at the Honolulu International Airport, the officer noticed the passenger sneak a knife into a prosthetic leg, the Transportation Security Administration explained in a statement. A TSA officer was alerted and the passenger flagged for additional screening at a checkpoint.…