LOS ANGELES (AP) An airport employee was arrested Tuesday in connection with dry ice explosions at Los Angeles International Airport after police stepped up patrols and increased its checks on employees.
Bennett Dicarlo, a 28-year-old employee for the ground handling company Servisair, was booked for possession of a destructive device near an aircraft. He was being held on $1 million bail.
Dicarlo took the dry ice from a plane and placed it in an employee restroom Sunday night and another device that was found on a tarmac outside the international terminal, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation who wasn't authorized to speak publicly.
Police had previously said they didn't believe the explosions were an act of terror because of the locations of the devices and because people weren't targeted.
No one was injured in either incident, although some flights were delayed Sunday.