20-year-old Steven Noble of Las Vegas was caught trying to board a plane departing from Long Island’s MacArthur airport with a pipe bomb, fireworks, a 7 inch knife and .22 nailgun rounds. He had a one way ticket after spending about a year in Long Island. Don’t worry his step-sister claims he’s a good “kid” and didn’t mean to hurt anyone:

A Las Vegas man attempted to bring a pipe bomb on board a jet at Long Island MacArthur Airport yesterday morning, federal officials said in court documents.

The suspected pipe bomb that was found in Steven Nobles’ baggage “could have functioned. It could have detonated,” federal prosecutor John Durham said at Nobles’ arraignment in U.S. District Court in Central Islip late yesterday afternoon.

But Nobles’ attorney, federal public defender Randi Chavis, said Nobles, 20, had not intended to harm anyone and inadvertently placed the device in his luggage as he was returning to visit his mother after a year of working on Long Island.

Sources familiar with the investigation said that at this point federal prosecutors and FBI agents do not believe Nobles was bent on terrorism, but, at the very least, displayed poor judgment.

I’ll say. And isn’t it obvious a man boarding a plane with several explosives and a knife isn’t connected at all to terrorism? It’s not as if Whites are being recruited into terror cells or anything.

Besides, like I said we have his step-sister’s word for it that he wasn’t up to anything:

Nobles’ stepsister, Alexandria Stills, said whatever Nobles was doing, he would never intentionally hurt anyone.

“I’m sure Steven is giving the police his information. He’s a good kid,” said Stills, 20, of Central Islip. “I don’t think that he had anything to do with any type of bomb. He does electrical work. I’m thinking that whatever he had in his bag was related to his work.”

If you can’t trust the step-sister of a man caught with a pipe bomb in an airport who can you trust?

N.T.A. has the whole story.