Seminary student arrested at airport with live explosives

A 21-year-old seminary student carried live hand grenades when he was arrested trying to board a flight, police said Tuesday.

Roman Regman, who was arrested Saturday at a Tampa International Airport security checkpoint while trying to board a flight to Wilkes Barre-Scranton, Pennsylvania, denied the explosives he carried were real.

But police noted that it doesn’t take a functioning weapon to hijack a plane; merely the threat of an attack is sufficient.

And Regman was carrying a mini-arsenal — five handmade bombs, bomb-making materials, two live grenades, a 9 mm pistol, about 180 rounds of ammunition and six military-style knives.

Police told CNN that the two hand grenades were powerful enough to blow the aircraft from the sky.

They didn’t consider terrorism a factor in the incident, and they are still looking for a motive. Federal officials have yet to decide whether to prosecute Regman.

A Romanian immigrant, Regman is a student at St. Tikhon’s Seminary in South Canaan, Pennsylvania.