Man Uses Woman’s Boarding Pass At Las Vegas TSA Checkpoint — Then Flips An Officer And Tries To Stab Police With A Pen

Last month a man tried to get through a Las Vegas airport TSA checkpoint using someone else’s boarding pass and wound up facing federal charges after fighting TSA agents and local police, turning a pen into an offensive weapon.

According to the federal complaint, Jhon Raul Vizcaino Ramirez showed up at the security checkpoint trying to enter the secure area using a the boarding pass of a woman booked on a Southwest Airlines flight to Rochester, New York. Screeners questioned him about the discrepancy.

When they pressed him for matching ID, the man produced a passport sealed inside a plastic bag – but refused to hand it over. More TSA screeners came over, including a Spanish speaker. The man demanded that the agents give back his boarding pass. TSA refused – to them it was evidence. So Ramirez allegedly struck one of the officers in the head and grabbed their glasses.

Another screener called for help from Las Vegas police. Two police officers responded and tried to detain Ramirez. However, he reportedly fought with them and managed to flip one officer over his back, sending both of them crashing to the ground in the middle of the checkpoint area.

As TSA and local police tried to get control of him, Ramirez is said to have grabbed one of their pens and started trying to stab the police officers with it. He’s also accused of kicking a police officer twice and kicking a TSA officer in the face. Eventually, they managed to get him under control and into custody there at the checkpoint.

The man has been indicted by a federal grand jury, including for charges of interference with security screening personnel and entering an airport secure area by false pretenses, plus related assault counts tied to the attacks. He’s scheduled for an arraignment and plea hearing on December 12.

The job of TSA document checker and screener is more dangerous than you’d expect. This is hardly the first time we’ve seen an attack. For instance, a main lied in wait near a TSA checkpoint in Miami and sprinted out of hiding to attack a screener after having been diverted on a Copa flight the day before.

A cop tasered passengers in Atlanta as a fight broke out at security oer a man without ID. Surely the worst place in the airport to pick a fight is in front of TSA and cops.

Meanwhile an officer pulled a gun on passengers during a brawl also at the Miami airport when a Florida Man grabbed the keys from an airport employee’s golf cart.

Notably, it isn’t just passengers doing this. An American Airlines employee was charged after threatening to kill a TSA document checker. They had tried to use the PreCheck at Charlotte without a valid PreCheck boarding pass, hurled a racial slur, and things escalated from there.