TSA holds drill, doesn’t tell police

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport - It was a drill, but the trouble was no one had told the cops, who thought it was real. “I think a lot of people were alarmed,” Patrick Hogan, spokesman for the Metropolitan Airport Commission, said. “There is always a danger that someone could have gotten hurt. It was unfortunate.” The routine drill conducted by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began when a man with a fake bomb in his bag attempted to get through the security at checkpoint 2, which is near the United, American and U.S. Airways airlines ticketing counters, Hogan said. The screener identified what looked to be an explosive device and immediately notified authorities.  More