********* — ****** say a hunter’s trip home hit a snag in ********* after security screeners found a **** cougar in his luggage.

No ***** was committed because the man had a hunting tag. But ****** Lt. David Gordon told the ********* Review-Journal that Transportation Security Administration agents held the man at McCarran International Airport late Tuesday to confirm the validity of the Utah hunting tag.

His name and where he was headed weren’t released.

Airport spokeswoman Melissa Nunnery says the man ended up shipping the cougar carcass home, not on the airplane.

Gordon says it’s not a ***** to transport legally possessed game on an ******* flight. But he says airlines can refuse to transport certain items.