The Cyril E. King Airport in St. Thomas, USVI. Photo Credit: ERNICE GILBERT, V.I. CONSORTIUM.
ST. THOMAS — A man is facing a federal charge after Customs and Border Protection officers found hundreds of rounds of ammunition in two checked suitcases that arrived in St. Thomas on an American Airlines flight from Miami.
According to court documents, CBP officers were conducting routine x-ray inspections Wednesday of checked luggage that had arrived on the flight when the scan indicated the possible presence of firearm ammunition inside two suitcases…