{"id":53957,"date":"2025-12-07T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53957\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T00:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:13:08","slug":"west-virginia-man-charged-after-gun-found-at-pittsburgh-international-airport-security-checkpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53957\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia man charged after gun found at Pittsburgh International Airport security checkpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Morgantown, West Virginia, man has been charged after a loaded gun was found at the Pittsburgh International Airport security checkpoint, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1AUiuGXeFL\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\">Allegheny County police said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Security Administration officers found the weapon within a passenger&#8217;s carry-on bag around 4:45 a.m. Saturday. County police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were subsequently notified.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/594636417-1167578258885708-649155484609745070-n.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"594636417-1167578258885708-649155484609745070-n.jpg \" height=\"407\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Transportation Security Administration officers found the weapon within a passenger&#8217;s carry-on bag around 4:45 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>                Photo Credit: Allegheny County Police Department<\/p>\n<p>The passenger, 37-year-old Donovan Pearson, did not possess a valid concealed carry permit, police said. Pearson is charged with carrying a firearm without a license.<\/p>\n<p>Airport officials and county police remind passengers that if they bring firearms into an airport security checkpoint, they can face federal civil fines from the TSA up to $10,000. Repeat offenders can be fined up to $13,910.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Morgantown, West Virginia, man has been charged after a loaded gun was found at the Pittsburgh International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9001,73,75,6846,74,978],"class_list":["post-53957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-gun","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-international-airport","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-west-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}