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but the FBI arrested him a week later at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Rojas was released, pending trial, to live with his father in Chicago and was ordered to give up his passport and not board any airline. However, he fled to Mexico where he was re-arrested on 26 March and returned to the United States on 3 August.
17 SEPTEMBER: AUCKLAND
New Zealand television star Ben Boyce, 33, together with Bryce Anthony Casey, 32, and Andrew Logan Robinson, 26, being staff from a TV production company, were arrested after a man wearing a pilot’s uniform was identified trying to gain access to restricted areas of the airport as part of a TV prank.
23 SEPTEMBER: ISLEWORTH, UK Timothy Bradley, 32, was sentenced to three months in prison for his behaviour on a British Airways flight from Phoenix to London on 20 August. Bradley became abusive after the crew refused to serve him more alcohol. He played loud music on his laptop, tried chatting up flight attendant Charlotte Howell (telling her she was sexy and that he loved her), swore at flight attendant Stuart Williams and spat at Purser John Manson before asking him, "Do you think I'm going to stab the pilot?” He was given a written warning but he threw it away.
26 SEPTEMBER: ALBANY, NEW YORK Loretta Quayle, 54, was arrested after screeners found a loaded .380-calibre semiautomatic handgun in her purse.
27 SEPTEMBER: JEDDAH Timothy Bradley (left) and Charlotte Howell
25 SEPTEMBER: KEARNEY, NEBRASKA Randy Black, 37, was arrested for allegedly having a loaded Walther PPS .40-calibre semiautomatic in his carry-on luggage.
20 SEPTEMBER: HOUSTON Leonard Julius Sawyer, a 32-year-old criminal defence lawyer, was charged with exposing himself to two women on a Continental Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Houston on 14 February. Sawyer had two 2009 criminal convictions for groping women at a Los Angeles County Courthouse.
21 SEPTEMBER: ORLANDO Thomas Colasacco, 68, was arrested as he tried to board a plane at Orlando International Airport with three guns, two of which were loaded. The guns were a .357-Magnum, a .25-calibre Beretta and a .40-calibre Smith and Wesson semiautomatic.
22 SEPTEMBER: GENERAL SANTOS CITY, PHILIPPINES
Kenneth Batas was arrested for joking that there was a bomb in his luggage on a Cebu Pacific flight from Manila.
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26 SEPTEMBER: ALMOCAGEME, PORTUGAL George Wright, 68, was taken into custody by Portuguese police at the request of the US government. Wright was a former member of the Black Liberation
Army and one of the hijackers of a Delta flight en route from Detroit to Miami in 1972. Wright had been dressed as a priest and was travelling with his partner and their two-year-old daughter. He, together with four other BLA members, had released the 86 passengers they had on board in exchange for a $1m ransom delivered by an FBI agent wearing only swimming trunks, before forcing the crew to fly to Algeria, where the hijackers sought asylum, which was granted. Wright is believed to have been living in Portugal for over 20 years.
26 SEPTEMBER: DUBAI E.P., a 37-year old Frenchman, was sentenced to three months suspended imprisonment for his intoxicated behaviour on an Emirates flight from Paris to Dubai. He was also fined Dh1,000 for consuming liquor.
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A flight attendant was found guilty of attempting to rape a woman in the toilets of a Saudi Airlines flight, operating a domestic route, in June. The victim was an Australian woman who was travelling with her husband. The flight attendant was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 2000 lashes. The corporal punishment could be fatal if meted out at one time, but the Saudi system allows for the flogging to be carried out in instalments with the convict being allowed to recuperate between instalments.
28 SEPTEMBER: BOSTON Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, was arrested and charged with allegedly plotting to damage or destroy the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, using three large remote controlled aircraft filled with explosives. Ferdaus had already purchased one F-86 Sabre remote controlled aircraft.
28 SEPTEMBER: JACKSON HOLE John Frazer, 64, was charged with felony property destruction after he allegedly rammed his car into the terminal building at Jackson Hole Airport on 9 September, damaging a window, a wall, a bench and a support beam of the terminal, causing an estimated $35,736 in damage.
December 2011 Aviationsecurityinternational
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