shuttled people away from the southernmost passenger screening area
Friday night after a man claiming to have a gun barricaded himself
inside a restroom.
The man was arrested following a two-and-a-half-hour standoff, after
No flights were delayed, and no other airport operations were affected. The man was not actually carrying a weapon.
Police aren’t sure what the man’s motives were, but
they said there was nothing to suggest the incident was an attempt at
terrorism.
“He said something about being upset because he needed to fly somewhere but didn’t have any money,” said Sea-Tac spokeswoman
The incident began about
when police received reports of an armed man in an airport bathroom.
Coming little more than a week after a man attempted to detonate an
explosive device on
The man was arrested about
“There was minimal impact at that time of night
because most of our passengers were arrivals, not departures,” said
Sea-Tac spokesman
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