He’s already been released without bail pending his November 10 hearing.
This is the part that irks me:
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, whose department includes TSA, said officials "will go back and look at our protocol" for handling such e-mails. He said the agency gets a high volume of e-mails about possible threats and officials decided that Heatwole "wasn't an imminent threat."
Of course not. “Imminent” has to do with something that hasn’t yet happened. This guy sent TSA email saying that he’d already put the stuff on the aircraft. Therefore he was no longer “an imminent threat.” .
He put banned items on an airplane then told TSA about it. They ignored him because he wasn’t a threat. I hope I’m missing something here
Dave