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Passengers Busted With Guns at LaGuardia Airport on Fourth of July: Police

July 5, 2017 5:13pm | Updated July 5, 2017 5:13pm

​EAST ELMHURST — Two airline passengers were busted ​with guns in their luggage at LaGuardia Airport on the Fourth of July, officials said.

Quashaun Hagler​, 30, from Minnetonka, Minnesota, was arrested by Port Authority Police inside Terminal C before noon on Tuesday after they found he had a semi-automatic Glock with him, according to a spokesman for the agency.

Three hours later, police found a loaded .38 revolver inside a bag as it moved down the conveyor belt as Timothy Green, 54, of Titusville, Florida, tried traveling to Orlando, a spokesman said. 

Both were arrested and charged with criminal possession of a weapon.

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