TV Crew Arrested Making an attempt to Smuggle ‘Bomb’ By Airport Safety, TSA Says

A minimum of seven folks had been arrested at Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport in New Jersey on Jan. 18, after allegedly making an attempt to movie the smuggling of a pretend bomb by a safety checkpoint for a tv present.

The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) instructed CBS New York that the defendants all claimed to work for a tv community and had been covertly filming the encounter. The improvised explosive machine, which appeared to contain components of a vacuum cleaner, didn’t make it by the checkpoint because it was detected as a suspicious merchandise.

A supply instructed the New York Day by day Information that the folks arrested had been a part of the CNBC actuality TV present Staten Island Hustle, and that they needed to report the mass panic they presumed would ensue from the invention of the merchandise, which resembled a bomb. Endemol Shine North America, the present’s producer, launched an announcement saying it was “wanting into the small print of what occurred as a matter of precedence.”

Endemol’s assertion continued: “Whereas this course of is ongoing we’re unable to remark additional however within the meantime, we sincerely apologize for any disruption triggered.”

A spokesperson on the TSA instructed the BBC that the tv crew members may face civil penalties of as much as $13,000 for every safety violation.

The TSA didn’t instantly reply to Fortune‘s request for remark.