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Article: Man Arrested at Boston's Logan Airport Carrying Inert Grenade.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- February 27, 2003
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By Mac Daniel, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 27--One of Boston's top advertising executives was arrested yesterday at Logan Airport after he was found carrying an inert, hollowed-out hand grenade through security.
Walter "Skip" Pile, 55, of Brookline, was charged with felony possession and transportation of a hoax device after a federal security screener spotted the inert World War II-era grenade during a routine X-ray search of Pile's laptop briefcase yesterday morning at Logan's Terminal B.
Although the grenade was later determined to be harmless and Pile said it had been used as a paperweight, screeners with ...