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Ken Ritter
LAS VEGAS — 33-year-old man from California crowded Two airline ticket agents were injured after a security breach at a Las Vegas airport on Sunday sparked panic among business travelers and delayed or canceled flights, police said Tuesday. said in a report.
Neither injury was serious, according to an arrest report comparing the incident at Harry Reid International Airport to terrorism. Stefan Mathias Hutchison, 33, told the arresting officer that he wanted to go home immediately rather than wait for Monday's flight. Police said he was also arrested on misdemeanor charges after passing a TSA judge at the airport on Saturday.
Hutchison was imprisoned prior to Wednesday's court date for burglary charges under Nevada law before a Las Vegas judge found it a felony to break into a building with the intent to commit a crime. I did.
The public defender who defended him declined to comment on the case.
One of her Spirit Airlines employees said she hit her head against the wall as Hutchison walked past her and through her secure door. the police said. Another Spirit employee tackled Hutchison before the police arrived. Both were taken to hospital after complaining of pain, according to a police report.
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Arresting officer Eric Jones wrote that the airport was "extremely busy with thousands of travelers" at the time. He said he heard "about 10 loud bangs" at the ticket office, "stomped on each other" and saw "hundreds of frightened civilians flee" as they rushed past TSA checkpoints. rice field.
Police and social media reports compared the noise to gunshots.
"We determined that the loud bang was a stanchion (line partition) that had fallen to the floor as citizens were fleeing the area," Jones wrote.
Hutchison spent several hours in jail after Saturday's arrest, before a judge released him on the promise that he would appear on a misdemeanor charge on October 11. He was accused of going through a TSA screening his checkpoint, entering the concourse of his boarding gate, and stealing sunglasses from a variety store before he was arrested.
The arrest report amended Hutchison's birthplace. On Monday, police announced he was from Carmichael, Calif.
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