Through the lens of an officer’s body-worn camera at Tampa International Airport, newly-released video obtained by 10 Investigates shows Abraham Yacoub placing his hands behind his back as an officer puts him under arrest just beyond the security checkpoint in August 2023. Yacoub had just gotten a Glock 19 through TSA screening, which forced an evacuation of airside F. TSA officials said security screening machines detected the bag, but agents sent the wrong bag to be rescreened, releasing the bag with the weapon. Yacoub grabbed the bag and ran, TSA said. “TSA was quick to identify who the individual was because they grabbed the property and then located them with law enforcement who brought them back to the checkpoint,” said Charles Miller, TSA deputy federal security director for the greater Tampa Bay area. “We have analogic automatic screening lanes here, and when you have those obvious threats, the system identifies those…and then they are sequestered off into a high threat box and they stay there until law enforcement officers respond,” Miller said. Yacoub is serving a three-year sentence in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of entering an airport with intent to commit a felony and attempting to board an aircraft knowingly carrying a concealed, dangerous weapon. This is his second offense. The Department of Justice said he pleaded guilty in 2021 to bringing a firearm into a TSA-secured area in a Miami-Dade County airport. While guns rarely make it through TSA checkpoints, Miller says Tampa International Airport has seen an increase in weapons during screenings. “We've seen a sharp rise and year over year, we're already exceeding FY24 rates for firearm carriers coming through the airport,” he said.