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Weapons discoveries at airports continued during the holidays

The week between the Christmas and New Years' holidays saw over a dozen loaded and unloaded guns, along with a variety of other weapons confiscated at airport checkpoints around the country.

Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSOs) found hand grenades, loaded guns, and martial arts weaponry on some passengers making their way through security checkpoints during the holiday week.

A former agent for Innospec Inc. was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine for his participation in a conspiracy to defraud the United Nations Oil for Food Program (OFFP) and for bribing former Iraqi government officials in connection with the sale of a chemical additive used in the refining of leaded fuel.

A man charged in the mid-1990’s for his part in a huge conspiracy to smuggle tons of cocaine into Arizona from Mexico by tunneling under the border has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison by a U.S. judge.

Victor Flores, 52, a Mexican national, was sentenced on Oct. 3 to 135 months in prison for his part in a conspiracy to smuggle and distribute almost eight tons of cocaine in the U.S. through a tunnel that extended from Mexico into Naco, AZ.

A central California man pleaded guilty to throwing a Molotov cocktail into a local Planned Parenthood clinic in Madera, CA and throwing a brick into a mosque in the city.

Science Applications International Corporation was awarded a task order by the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division to provide systems engineering and lifecycle integration services in support of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and other federal agencies. NSWC Crane Division is located in Crane, IN.

Sperry West’s newest Spyder camera, SWDVR32C-IR, “Black Cube,” is a working clock radio, covert camera. It is an infrared, sensitive, high-resolution, hidden video camera.

The Spyder “Black Cube” has a built-in digital recorder. It records to an SD card for easy playback on a laptop, desk top computer or digital photographic camera. It records full-motion events as it is motion-activated and programmable, with its included remote control.

Genetec, a provider of world-class IP security solutions, announced on March 3 that the acclaimed Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), of Phoenix, AZ, has installed Omnicast, Genetec’s IP video surveillance system, for the protection and monitoring of its prized collection.

The Omnicast system is currently managing more than 200 Axis Communications and Interlogix IP cameras, plus a few analog PTZ cameras connected via encoders.

“One size does not fit all,” is the philosophy behind Senstar’s approach to border protection.

Gord Loney, Senstar’s vice president of product sales, in a presentation to a border security conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, said, “Any full border solution is often a compromise when faced with the priorities of addressing the threats, respecting environmental concerns and meeting budget constraints. The solution also needs to be customized to the local culture and even legal requirements.”

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