Brass Knuckles Found in Passenger's Bag at JWA

Security officials at John Wayne Airport on Friday found brass knuckles in a passenger's carry-on bag, a Transportation Safety Administration spokesman said.

The passenger told authorities that he borrowed the bag and didn't look through it before packing, TSA spokesman Nico Melendez said. A TSA officer found the brass knuckles during the x-ray screening passengers undergo, he said.

"It's always a good idea to look through a bag before you bring it to the airport to make sure there are no illegal or prohibited items," Melendez said.

Orange County sheriff's deputies confiscated the brass knuckles and let the passenger continue to his US Airways flight to Phoenix, Melendez said.

Last week, security officials at John Wayne in passengers' bags in three separate incidents.

"I've never seen this many illegal items in this short a period of time," Melendez said at the time.