A Chester man tried to bring a gun and bullets onto a plane “artfully” taped and wrapped in an Ace bandage hidden in a hollowed-out bar of soap, writes Jerry DeMarco for dailyvoice.com.

The man was stopped by TSA officers at Newark Airport.

The traveler told the officers the gun was “given to him by a deceased relative and he was planning to take it to Lagos, Nigeria,” TSA Spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said Tuesday.

“The items were detected among the traveler’s other belongings inside his checked bag,” Farbstein said. “When the TSA officer spotted the items, Port Authority police were contacted and the man was called to return to the airline check-in counter.”

The unidentified man was arrested on weapons charges by PAPD officers.  

“This individual knew what was in his checked bag and he intentionally attempted to conceal both the gun and ammunition to bring overseas,” said Thomas Carter, TSA’s Federal Security Director for New Jersey.

TSA officers routinely screen carry-on bags and checked baggage before it is loaded onto a plane.

“This was a good catch on the part of our officers,” Carter said.

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