INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Federal brokers confiscated a loaded gun discovered within the hand baggage of actor and comic Mike Epps, who was attempting to board a flight at Indianapolis Worldwide Airport, airport police stated.
Transportation Safety Administration officers found the Smith & Wesson .38-caliber pistol Sunday morning inside Epps’ backpack, airport police stated. Epps, 52, instructed brokers on the TSA checkpoint that he forgot he had the weapon in his bag.
Brokers seized the weapon however didn’t arrest Epps. Airport officers didn’t say the place Epps was flying to or if he was travelling alone. The TSA forwarded the case to the Marion County prosecutor’s workplace to contemplate if expenses are essential.
Spokesman Michael Leffler stated Wednesday that the prosecutor’s workplace is reviewing the case.
“These issues hardly ever end in felony expenses,” Leffler stated.
“I feel it is very important observe that the burden of proof required by statute and case legislation requires you to show whether or not a person knowingly or deliberately introduced the firearm,” he added. “Typically talking, the commonest circumstance is that firearms positioned by TSA or airport police are unintentionally left in luggage.”
The Related Press despatched an electronic mail searching for remark from an Epps consultant Wednesday.
Epps, an Indianapolis native, has starred in motion pictures together with “The Home Subsequent Door: Meet the Blacks 2,” “Subsequent Friday” and “Friday After Subsequent.” He seems within the upcoming Marvel film “Madame Net” starring Dakota Johnson, and the Apple TV+ sequence “Woman within the Lake” starring Natalie Portman.
Final yr, the Transportation Safety Administration seized a report 6,542 weapons at airports across the nation. Most people who find themselves stopped for having a gun at an airport checkpoint say they forgot they’d the weapon with them.