FBI: He Had Lethal Explosives On Board Flight

New York/New Jersey Port Authority screeners at JFK are collecting quite an arsenal these days -- thanks to a 26-year old DynCorp contractor on his way home to California from Afghanistan.

Shaun Louis Marshall is free on $25,000 bond after he was charged with five counts of transporting explosives and ammunition on an airplane. He's to appear in court on Friday. If convicted, authorities said he could get 20 years in prison.

The real question, of course, is how did Marshall get all the way to JFK with Soviet munitions in his luggage? Screeners at JFK found five military .50-caliber bullets, four military small-arms cartridges, one Soviet projectile-point detonating fuse, and one explosive Soviet full-round surface-to-air or air-to-air cartridge in Marshall's bag, according to federal court documents. He had come from Afghanistan by way of the United Arab Emirates. But the ammo in his luggage was only discovered August 19th, according to the Los Angeles Times -- and only discovered during a random search.

"While over there, he and some patrolmen were going through different houses and found some books on the Taliban and some unexploded antiaircraft ordnance," Marshall's friend, Troy Lyman, told the LA Times. "Being ex-military and as the military does overseas, they picked them up as souvenirs. He packed them in his bag and flew back with them, like an idiot."

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