Man Busted Wearing Body Armor Arrested @ LAX!

A man wearing body armor, flame-retardant leggings and knee pads under his trench coat was arrested  at Los International Airport after a Customs and Border Protection officer found a smoke grenade and several weapons in his checked luggage. Yongda Huang Harris, 28, a naturalized citizen of Chinese desceent, had flown from Kansai, Japan, via Inchon, Korea, to LAX on Friday, and after customs agents pulled him aside for a secondary bag inspection, the bullet-proof vest was noted and when asked if he had anything he would like to declare in his luggage, Harris told the officer that he had a knife, but when his bag was searched, the officer found in addition to the smoke grenade, three leather-coated black-jack billy clubs, a collapsible baton, a full face respirator , several knives and a hatchet.

Upon further inspection, officers also found body bags, a tyvex biohazard suit, various masks, duct tape, hand cuffs, leg irons, flex cuffs, oven mitts and cooking tongs. The smoke grenade, is  manufactured by a company called Commando, is classified as an explosive and is capable of filling a 40,000-cubic-foot space with smoke, and the grenade is also capable of cause a fire. It remains unclear as to why Harris had those items in his luggage, but the investigation is ongoing. Harris is being represented by criminal defense attorney Steven A. Seiden, who is also representing the controversial anti-Islam filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. Seiden’s office described Harris as a highly intelligent and dilligent student who attended excllent schools in Boston and has no criminal history or violent tendencies. Harris made an initial appearance in court on Tuesday, and will be back in court on Friday for a detention hearing.