Man arrested after joking about TSA missing bomb in bag at Florida airport, deputies say

Katlyn Brieskorn
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man from Reno, Nevada was arrested at a Florida airport on Saturday after deputies said he joked that Transportation Security Administration agents missed a bomb in his bag.

Deputies said 27-year-old Mack Bjorn was on the jetway preparing to board a JetBlue flight from Fort Lauderdale to San Francisco when he made the joke.

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When he was confronted by someone who overheard him and a flight attendant, he reaffirmed that TSA agents missed the bomb in his bag, an arrest report said.

He was escorted from the jetway and arrested.

Bjorn was charged with making a false bomb report.

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