PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) \u2014 A U.S. Marine was detained at a California airport after Transportation Security Administration personnel found a live 25 mm explosive round in his checked baggage, police said.<\/p>\n
The round was found during the screening process of checked luggage at Palm Springs International Airport on Monday, the Palm Springs Police Department said in a news release. <\/p>\n
The Marine told investigators he found the round \u201cin the field\u201d about a year ago and kept it, thinking it wasn\u2019t live. <\/p>\n
\u201cDue to extensive rust and corrosion, the round\u2019s original identifying paint markings were no longer visible, making it difficult to determine whether it was an inert training munition or a live explosive device,\u201d police said in the news release. <\/p>\n
The Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Department Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team used X-ray technology to confirm that it was a live round. The team took it to a desert area near Interstate 10, where it was destroyed, the news release said. No one was hurt.<\/p>\n
Police said they submitted the case to the Riverside County District Attorney\u2019s Office for a review of potential violations and criminal charges. An email seeking comment was sent to the district attorney\u2019s office Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Marine, who was released to military authorities, could face administrative action by the Marine Corps and a potential civil penalty through the TSA, police said. Emails seeking comment were sent to both organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) \u2014 A U.S. Marine was detained at a California airport after Transportation Security Administration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54325,7,9,8,18,734,109694,9103,9549,8619,2422,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-245018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-airport-security","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-law-enforcement","14":"tag-marine-detained-airport","15":"tag-military-and-defense","16":"tag-palm-springs","17":"tag-transportation-security-administration","18":"tag-travel","19":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}