A homeless man was arrested at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International airport this month with a machete, a 10-inch butcher knife and five scissors, according to police.
“At no time was the public in danger,” airport spokesman Reese McCranie said Wednesday.
Kenneth Edward Royal was arrested March 14 after officers saw him pushing a shopping cart that “appeared to be full of blankets and trash” through the atrium area, according to the incident report.
After an officer asked Royal what he was doing, Royal did not answer and headed toward the airport MARTA station, police said.
At the station, another officer found that Royal had been arrested on a criminal trespass charge in July 2016, according to the report. Police also issued Royal a warning for criminal trespass in June 2016. Details of those charges were not immediately available.
The officer then arrested Royal on a charge of criminal trespass, according to the report.
Police said they found the machete, scissors and butcher knife after searching Royal. The knife was in his jacket, the scissors were tied to a shoelace around his waist, and the machete was in a bag in the shopping cart.
Royal was placed in a holding cell and later taken to the Clayton County jail, police said.
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