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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A man from West Virginia is receiving charges after trying to sneak a live flash-bang grenade into the Pittsburgh International Airport. According to the Allegheny County Police Department, twenty-five-year-old Zachary Velling of Morgantown, West Virginia brought the grenade in his luggage Tuesday morning and was discovered at the main security checkpoint of the airport. The grenade was pronounced live by a bomb squad technician and has since been safely taken away, but the incident has been told to the FBI. Velling has been given charges including two for misdemeanor for both criminal attempt by bringing explosives and for prohibitive offensive weapons.