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Fake Grenade Holds Up Passengers at BWI

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BALTIMORE (AP) - Officials say a man has been caught with a replica grenade at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says the man was caught Sunday while going through a TSA checkpoint.

Farbstein says the grenade looked like a real one when it went through the x-ray machine.

She says the incident caused delays to travelers at the airport.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.