Security screenings at Detroit Metro Airport temporarily halted due to security breach

Detroit Metropolitan Airport (WDIV)

ROMULUS, Mich. – A man was taken into custody Sunday evening after a security breach at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.

According to officials with the airport, just before 5 p.m. a man was dropping off his child -- an unaccompanied minor -- at the North Terminal. The two reportedly walked to a checkpoint where the father removed a barricade in front of a closed metal detector and they walked through without being screened.

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Officers with the airport police and TSA located the two and took the father into custody. He is expected to be ticketed.

The child was escorted back to a checkpoint and was successfully screened.

Authorities said security screenings at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport were halted temporarily due to the incident.


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