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Airport Guard Arrested Over Obama Threats

Fellow NJ worker reportedly overheard him making remarks

By the Associated Press

Posted Oct 21, 2009 2:54 PM CDT
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(AP) – A private security guard at Newark Liberty International Airport has been arrested on charges of threatening President Obama before the president was to fly there. A Continental Airlines employee reported overhearing John Brek make threatening comments at an airport coffee cart yesterday afternoon. The 55-year-old security guard was arrested several hours later.

Brek denied making the threats, said a spokesman for the Secret Service. Obama will be in New Jersey today to campaign for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. Brek allowed police to search his Linden home, and officers found 43 firearms. The firearms were still being processed, but no illegal guns had been found.

President Barack Obama speaks at Metropolitan Archives facility, in Landover, Md., Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009.
President Barack Obama speaks at Metropolitan Archives facility, in Landover, Md., Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
A group of motorcycle riders are escorted by police while they stop in front of the United airlines entrance at Newark Liberty International Airport Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009.
A group of motorcycle riders are escorted by police while they stop in front of the United airlines entrance at Newark Liberty International Airport Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009.   (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
A passenger aircraft lands at Newark Liberty International Airport, Monday, June 30, 2008, in Newark, N.J.
A passenger aircraft lands at Newark Liberty International Airport, Monday, June 30, 2008, in Newark, N.J.   (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Doctor-Zaius
Oct 22, 2009 12:59 PM CDT
I had a post flagged for no reason. I challenged it and when I discussed it with the powers that be they showed me a post of mine that was insulting. I made them a promise that I would mend my ways and since then I have done so.
Doctor-Zaius
Oct 22, 2009 12:56 PM CDT
Dawgs, if you thought my threat was credible it was your duty as an American to turn me in on suspected aiding and abetting someone with the intent to assault by footwear.
Doctor-Zaius
Oct 22, 2009 12:46 PM CDT
At least its a real newspaper and not some right wing blog. If I posted a story from the Daily Kos you'd laugh your ass off. That's basically what you did. And where did you get the idea that I applauded the shoe thrower. I felt sorry for him. He had a lot of shit happen to him and if you read his history he had plenty of reason to be angry at the Bush administration.

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