Tsa Officers Detain Passenger Over 'bomb' Comments About Sandwich

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[size=4]Airport officials detained a traveler who mentioned an explosive device at JFK — only to discover he was actually talking about food referred to as The Bomb, TSA sources said.[/size][/background][/size][/font][/color]
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[size=4]Jason Michael Cruz, 29, was on an escalator in Terminal 7 Thursday when a TSA officer overheard him tell a friend he “had the wrong kind of bomb” just after 1 p.m.[/size][/background][/size][/font][/color]
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[size=4]She reported the conversation to her supervisor, Robert Haddok, who sent officers to a security checkpoint to question the pair.[/size][/background][/size][/font][/color]
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[size=4]Officials ushered Cruz and his friend, Matthew Okumoto, to a holding area, where they learned the pair was [b]talking about a sandwich called The Bomb[/b], airport officials said.[/size][/background][/size][/font][/color]
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[size=4]Cruz told officers he was chatting about wanting to bring food on the airplane, sources said.[/size][/background][/size][/font][/color]
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[size=4]The TSA agent who reported the bomb comment explained that she had only caught a snippet of the conversation, and the pair was then released.[/size][/background][/size][/font][/color]
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[size=4]TSA officers held the pair until airport cops arrived, causing Cruz to miss his Los Angeles-bound flight[/size][/background][/size][/font][/color]