Bullets found in diaper at LaGuardia Airport by Transportation Security Administration

Talk about a loaded diaper.

The Transportation Security Administration intercepted 17 9-mm bullets from a man's carry-on bag on Wednesday morning at LaGuardia Airport in Queens.

The ammunition was hidden inside a baby diaper.

TSA officers removed the diaper when the man's carry-on luggage triggered an X-ray unit alarm at a security checkpoint.

"Inside the diaper, TSA officers unwrapped 17 bullets that had been artfully concealed inside the otherwise clean disposable baby diaper," the organization said.

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The Arkansas man first old officials that he didn't know how the diaper came to be in his bag, then said that his girlfriend must have placed it there.

TSA officers notified the Port Authority Police, who cited the traveler with unlawful possession of the ammunition, officials said.

This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: TSA intercepts 17 bullets found in baby diaper at LaGuardia Airport