Man's sexual device bombs with Chicago airport security

CHICAGO — Cook County prosecutors say a 29-year-old man traveling with his mother desperately didn't want her to know he'd packed a sexual aid for their trip to Turkey.

So he told security it was a bomb, officials said.

Madin Azad Amin, 29, of Skokie was stopped Aug. 16 at O'Hare International Airport after guards found an object in his baggage that resembled a grenade, prosecutors said.

When officers asked him to identify it, Amin said it was a bomb, said Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Lorraine Scaduto.

Amin later told officials he'd lied about the item because his mother was nearby and he didn't want her to hear that it was part of a penis pump, Scaduto said.

He was charged with felony disorderly conduct, said Andrew Conklin, a prosecutors' spokesman.

Amin's attorney told a Cook County judge Wednesday that Amin whispered that the component was a "pump." The guard misunderstood and thought he said "bomb," according to defense attorney Eileen O'Neill-Burke.

"He's standing with his mother. Of course he's not going to shout this out."

However, Judge Gerald Winiecki decided there was sufficient evidence for the case to move forward after the security guard testified she had heard Amin "clearly" say "bomb."

If convicted, Amin could spend up to three years in prison. He said after the hearing that security officials did not give him a chance to explain the misunderstanding, that he would never say "bomb" while going through a security checkpoint and does not consider the sexual device an unusual object to own.

"It's normal," he said. "Half of America, they use it."