Video shows cops remove man from plane after bringing loaded gun through security at Chicago’s O’Hare
Body camera footage shows the moment Chicago police arrested a passenger armed with a loaded gun on a plane at O’Hare International Airport — just minutes before takeoff.
Besnik Ismajlaj, 53, slipped through security with the weapon during a shift change at a TSA security checkpoint last month and boarded his flight with the Glock 9mm semiautomatic in his carry-on bag, according to police.
Newly released Ismajlaj sitting in first class when authorities board and escort him off the aircraft.
When the officers asked if he knew why they were there, he told them, “Yeah, it’s in my bag,” according to a police report .
“I forgot it,” he says to an officer once he’s off the plane and he’s placed in handcuffs, the clip shows.
Ismajlaj appears calm and cooperative as the officers go through his backpack and find the pistol, according to the video.
Ismajlaj, of St. Charles, Ill., snuck the handgun through Security Checkpoint 2 at O’Hare’s Terminal 1 during a TSA shift change on April 15.
A TSA agent acknowledged seeing the gun on the X-ray machine, but Ismajlaj reached inside, grabbed his bag and left for his flight before they could confiscate it, TSA officials said, according to CBS.
Another traveler waiting in the security line also provided cops with a description of what the gun-toting passenger looked like.
Once he was removed from the plane and placed under arrest, the video shows cops loading him into the back of a police van on the tarmac and taking him to a holding room where he’s read his Miranda rights.
Ismajlaj was charged with a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed firearm at the airport.
He’s due to appear in court on June 9.
