NewYork Post: Just two days after a stun gun was found on a JetBlue plane that had just landed at Newark Airport, a passenger at JFK Airport was caught trying to board a plane with two stun guns stashed in his luggage, sources said. The latest incident -- which appears unrelated to the first -- occurred shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday in the Queens airport's Terminal One, according to the sources.
Othon Mourkakos, 53, a restaurateur from Alpine, NJ, was busted as he waited to catch a Lufthansa Airlines flight for Frankfurt, Germany, the sources said.
Transportation Security Administration screener Romane Romain noticed the stun guns in a suitcase during an X-ray and physical bag search, according to a criminal complaint.
"I didn't know it was illegal in New York," Mourkakos allegedly told authorities.
He claimed to have bought the weapons for relatives in Greece because of the civil unrest there, a law-enforcement source said. His arrest follows Friday evening's discovery of a stun gun on JetBlue Flight 1179 from Boston after it had landed in Newark and its passengers had departed, the sources said.
The stun gun was found by a member of the flight crew in the back pocket of seat 9B. The Boston office of the FBI is investigating, a source said.
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