A 30-year-old man faces federal charges after allegedly striking TSA officers and resisting arrest at Harry Reid Airport while trying to board a flight with a false ticket
A man has been indicted after violently confronting TSA officers at Harry Reid International Airport while attempting to board a Southwest flight with a boarding pass that did not belong to him, say court documents.
Suspect Tried to Use a Woman’s Ticket
According to court papers gathered by the Las Vegas Review-Journal and KLAS-TV/Las Vegas, the incident took place on November 3.
Then, 30-year-old J.R.V.R. tried to board a flight to Rochester, New York, using a ticket in a woman’s name. TSA officers in Terminal 1 became suspicious and asked him questions about the boarding pass.
One of the officers, acting as a Spanish interpreter, asked the man for a form of identification. V.R. pulled out a passport inside a plastic bag from his pocket, but refused to hand it over, say prosecutors…