Woman arrested after loaded gun found in bag at RSW

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Jannine Anne Wagner

FORT MYERS, Fla. A woman was arrested at Southwest Florida International Airport after a loaded gun was found in her suitcase.

The Springfield XD 9mm 3.3-caliber pistol showed up Wednesday on an X-ray machine in the screening area, Lee County Port Authority police said in an arrest report.

Jannine Anne Wagner, 55, of the 9600 block of Campbell Circle in North Naples, told police the bag with the gun inside was hers, according to the arrest report. She later told police the bag had belonged to her deceased husband and that her daughter packed it.

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Her husband had a concealed weapons permit, she told police.

Wagner was taken to the Lee County Jail and later released on $5,000 bond.

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