Report: Felon used expedited screening

Report: Felon used expedited screening

WASHINGTON

The Homeland Security Department’s inspector general says the Transportation Security Administration allowed a known felon to use an expedited airport security screening lane.

The inspector general’s office says a TSA officer recognized the felon, who also was a former member of a domestic terrorist group, and alerted a supervisor. But the supervisor allowed the passenger to pass through TSA’s PreCheck security lane anyway.

Details of the passenger’s criminal history and when and where the event took place were not released.

Man arrested in threats to embassy

TOKYO

Japanese police said they arrested a man Thursday accused of making bomb threats against the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, and media reports said he also is a possible suspect in recent death threats against Ambassador Caroline Kennedy.

Tokyo police arrested Mitsuyoshi Kamiya, a resident of the southern island of Okinawa, for making the bomb threats from a pay phone in downtown Okinawa, a police spokesman said. He said the suspect also threatened to bomb Camp Schwab, a U.S. military base on the island.

Kamiya admitted to police that he made the bomb threats, but his motive was not immediately known, the police spokesman said.

Record: Suspect said she was pregnant

LONGMONT, Colo.

A Colorado woman accused of cutting open the belly of a pregnant woman and removing her unborn baby went to great lengths to show her family she was expecting a baby herself, even arranging to meet her husband for a prenatal appointment on the day of the attack, authorities said.

But when Dynel Lane’s husband came home to get her, he found her covered in blood and a baby gasping for breath in a bathtub.

Lane told her husband she suffered a miscarriage, and he took her and the baby to a hospital, where she was later arrested on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder and other crimes. Police wrote in her arrest affidavit that she lured the pregnant stranger to her home with a Craigslist ad for baby clothes and then cut her open.

Oldest female US veteran dies at 108

SAN ANTONIO

The nation’s oldest female military veteran is dead. She was 108.

Lucy Coffey was found dead in her bed in San Antonio on Thursday morning. Friend Queta Marquez, Bexar County veterans service officer, said Coffey had been sick for about a week and had a chronic cough.

Funeral arrangements are pending.

The Indiana-born farm girl was working at a Dallas grocery store the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The San Antonio Express-News reports that she quit the store in 1943 to join the new Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, which stationed her around the Pacific. She spent a decade in Japan before she moved to San Antonio.

Hanging probed

PORT GIBSON, Miss.

Federal and state authorities are investigating the hanging death of a black man in Mississippi who had been missing for more than two weeks, the FBI said Thursday.

The investigation involves the FBI, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the United States Attorney’s office. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation also is involved.

The man was last seen March 2 and was reported missing by his family days later, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jason Pack said in a statement. Pack says the cause of death has not been determined, and authorities aren’t sure if it’s a homicide or a suicide.

Associated Press