Bomb Found In Man’s Carry-on Bag At Airport Alongside A 15-minute Timer, Police Say

A man carrying an explosive instrumentality tin of damaging an craft was arrested aft trying to walk done security astatine Sacramento International Airport, national prosecutors say.

Authorities allege nan 49-year-old Sacramento resident, named arsenic Kimani Osayande Jones, who besides uses nan past sanction Jackson, arrived astatine nan checkpoint connected Saturday wearing latex gloves and a face-covering scarf while carrying a suspicious postulation of items, including an explosive device, a torch lighter, a knife, zip ties and 5 compartment phones.

According to prosecutors, 1 telephone had a 15-minute countdown timer running, while different displayed a chilling connection reading: “We will beryllium awaiting your call.”

Bomb technicians later examined nan instrumentality — a cardboard conduit fitted pinch a fuse — and wished it contained viable explosive material.

Federal officials warned that if detonated adjacent to a model connected a pressurized craft astatine cruising altitude, it could person damaged nan level and perchance caused a nonaccomplishment of compartment pressure.

The fishy was arrested astatine nan airdrome and appeared successful national tribunal connected Wednesday. He now faces a complaint of unlawfully possessing explosive worldly successful an airport.

The criminal title besides alleges he made “rambling” calls to nan FBI successful nan months beforehand to study he was being threatened and intimidated.

His lawyer has pushed backmost connected nan government's account, saying location is much to nan lawsuit than nan allegations presently made nationalist and that further specifications will look done nan ineligible process.

It wasn't instantly clear really extensively nan man was searched astatine nan Transportation Security Administration checkpoint.

Airport screening underwent a notable alteration successful 2025, erstwhile nan U.S. stopped requiring travelers to return disconnected their shoes during information screenings. Screenings without shoes became a request successful 2006, respective years aft “shoe bomber” Richard Reid’s grounded 2001 effort to return down a formation from Paris to Miami.