Passengers Allowed Back In MIA After Suspicious Suitcase Scare
MIAMI (CBS4) – Three concourses at Miami International Airport were evacuated Tuesday afternoon after a suspicious item was found near a Transportation Security Agency checkpoint.
Miami-Dade police spokesman Det. Roy Rutland said around 3 p.m. a TSA employee spotted a suitcase "containing suspicious writing on it" near the Concourse F security screening area.
In addition to the evacuation of Concourses E, F, & G, airport spokesman Greg Chin said they also closed the upper and lower driving areas near Concourse F as a precaution. Chopper 4 spotted hundreds of people outside of the terminals, many of them still holding their luggage.
Bomb detection K-9s were brought in, the swept the terminals but didn't find anything.
Rutland said one man was detained but it doesn't appear he'll be charged with a crime.
Although the security checkpoint to Concourse F was closed, Chin says no flights were immediately canceled or delayed. Any passengers who had already passed through security were able to go to their gates.
