A federal grand jury indicted a man on Tuesday after prosecutors accused him of assaulting Transportation Security Administration officers and attempting to board a plane with a woman’s boarding pass at Harry Reid International Airport.

Federal prosecutors said Jhon Raul Vizcaino Ramirez also attempted to stab Metropolitan Police Department officers with their own pen after they tried to detain him for hitting a TSA officer on Nov. 3, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court on Nov. 20.

The complaint said Vizcaino Ramirez approached security screening at Terminal 1 of Reid International wearing a hooded top and a bandana covering the lower half of his face. He presented the TSA officer with a boarding pass in a woman’s name for a flight to Rochester, New York, prompting the

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