TSA finds man with a live turtle concealed in his pants at a New Jersey airport

A Pennsylvania antheral who was going done information astatine a New Jersey airdrome was recovered to person a unrecorded turtle concealed successful his pants, according to the national Transportation Security Administration.

The turtle was detected Friday aft a assemblage scanner alarm went disconnected astatine Newark Liberty International Airport. A TSA serviceman past conducted a pat-down connected the East Stroudsburg antheral and determined determination was thing concealed successful the groin country of his pants.

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When questioned further, the antheral reached into his pants and pulled retired the turtle, which was astir 5 inches (12 centimeters) agelong and wrapped successful a tiny bluish towel. He said it was a red-ear slider turtle, a taxon that is fashionable arsenic a pet.

This photograph provided by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) shows a turtle successful a container aft a Pennsylvania antheral was caught with the turtle concealed successful his pants erstwhile the TSA assemblage scanner triggered an alarm successful the country of the man’s groin connected Friday, March 7, 2025, astatine Newark Liberty International Airport successful Newark, N.J.  (TSA via AP)

The antheral — whose sanction was not released — was escorted from the checkpoint country by Port Authority constabulary and ended up missing his flight. The turtle was confiscated, and it's not wide if the turtle was the man's favored oregon wherefore helium had it successful his pants.

"We person seen travelers effort to conceal knives and different weapons connected their person, successful their shoes and successful their luggage, nevertheless I judge this is the archetypal clip we person travel crossed idiosyncratic who was concealing a unrecorded carnal down the beforehand of his pants," said Thomas Carter, TSA’s Federal Security Director for New Jersey. "As champion arsenic we could tell, the turtle was not harmed by the man's actions."

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He said the incidental remains nether investigation, and it wasn’t wide if the antheral would look immoderate charges oregon penalties.