possessing explosive material<\/a>, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of California said.<\/p>\nAccording to court documents, Jones tried to go through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint about 9 p.m. Saturday while wearing a scarf over his face and latex gloves. He was attempting to board a flight, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Inside his carry-on bag, authorities found an M-type explosive device and a torch lighter capable of lighting it, along with a knife, scissors, scissor blades, an aerosol can and zip ties, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Jones also had five cellphones, including one with a 15-minute timer ready to start, prosecutors said. Another phone displayed a message from an unidentified number that said, \u201cwe will be awaiting your call,\u201d according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Jones, a resident of Sacramento, was arrested, and the device was safely removed by Sacramento County sheriff\u2019s bomb technicians and an FBI special agent bomb technician, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
The device was later tested, and its \u201cpowder and fuse were determined to be viable and energetic,\u201d prosecutors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office said the device could have caused injury and, if detonated next to a window on a pressurized aircraft flying above 10,000 feet, could have damaged the aircraft and possibly caused a loss of cabin pressure.<\/p>\n
The FBI and the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigated the case.<\/p>\n
If convicted, Jones faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Any sentence would be determined by a federal court.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors did not identify the airline, destination or a possible motive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Northern California man tried to pass through a security checkpoint at Sacramento International Airport with an explosive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7,723,121,123,122,2422],"class_list":["post-343946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343946","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=343946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}