KEARNEY — A rural Kearney man paid a fine and was placed on probation for trying to take a loaded handgun onto a plane at Kearney Regional Airport last fall.
Randy Black, 37, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of violating his concealed-weapon permit when he had a loaded Walther PPS .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun in his carry-on luggage at the airport. He was sentenced to pay a $300 fine and $48 in court costs.
Black also was placed on six months’ probation. He faced up to three months in jail and a $500 fine.
About 8 a.m. Sept. 25, Black was going through a security checkpoint at the airport when an X-ray machine detected the weapon in his carry-on luggage. An employee with the Transportation Security Administration found the weapon concealed in a holster in the luggage.
Kearney police said Black posed no terror threat.
— World-Herald News Service
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