AIR WATCH
30 SEPTEMBER: ST. LOUIS Former NBA player Darius Miles was charged with allegedly trying to take a loaded handgun through security at a St. Louis airport on 3 August.
2 OCTOBER: ALGIERS Following an intelligence tip-off, an airline steward working for Air Algeria was arrested on his arrival off a flight from Bamako (Mali) and was found to be in possession of 800 grams of heroin.
9 OCTOBER: APIA, SAMOA Reports emerge that Brian Gabriel was convicted and fined $1200 for sexually assaulting a female cabin attendant on a Polynesian Blue flight from Auckland to Apia.
9 OCTOBER: FORT LAUDERDALE Shanike Miller, 34, was arrested following an argument with a pregnant woman at Fort Lauderdale airport, during which she threatened to ‘slice’ her. Miller was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and one count of carrying an electric weapon or device.
10 OCTOBER: CHICHESTER, UK Kevin Flynn, 31, was jailed for a year for having made a hoax phone call to the Police from a public phone box in Bognor Regis claiming that his ex-wife was about to board a flight to New York with a bomb. The wording used was, “There’s a Kerensa Flynn or Kerensa Romara-MacMahan currently boarding at Heathrow or Gatwick with a bomb in her bag”.
10 OCTOBER: SALT LAKE CITY A man attempting to board a flight to Greenville-Spartanburg was arrested after screeners found a 9mm Ruger LC9 handgun in his carry-on baggage loaded with seven rounds of ammunition and one round in the chamber.
12 OCTOBER: DETROIT Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab waived his right to a trial and pleaded guilty on all charges associated with his attempted bombing of a Northwest flight on Christmas Day 2009.
20 OCTOBER: BRISBANE Terry David Blizzard, 59, was fined AUD $250 for making a joke about having a bomb in his suitcase during screening before boarding a Royal Brunei flight on 16 June.
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26 OCTOBER: BAKU Bakhtiyar Garashov was arrested at Heydar Aliyev International Airport for having a pistol in his carry-on baggage as he was boarding a flight to Kiev.
27 OCTOBER: MANCHESTER Lynn Grimes was given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, for her intoxicated behaviour on an easyjet flight from Athens to Manchester in December 2010. She had assaulted crewmembers, forcing the Captain to abort his first landing attempt.
27 OCTOBER: NEWARK Mauro Louzada, 48, was arrested when screeners found a stun gun in his carry-on baggage as he was boarding a flight to Hong Kong.
28 OCTOBER: MUMBAI Nurit T, a 23-year-old Israeli woman, was arrested at Mumbai airport when found to be in possession of live cartridges as she was going to board a flight to Kathmandu.
6 NOVEMBER: TAMPA
Michael S. Johnson, 27, was arrested after leading police on a car chase that ended with him scaling a barbed-wire fence surrounding Tampa International Airport.
20 OCTOBER: SINGAPORE Reports emerge that Li Dan, a 43-year-old Chinese woman, had assaulted a flight attendant on a flight from Hong Kong to Singapore on 27 June. The Filipino flight attendant, (pictured) suffered pain in her face and bruises to her arms.
10 NOVEMBER: CHICAGO
Reports emerge that Srinivasa S. Erramilli, 44, who had already twice been convicted for groping
women on flights, was charged with making unwanted sexual contact
with yet another sleeping passenger; this time on a flight from Las Vegas to Chicago on 14 June. In 1999, Erramilli was charged with criminal sexual abuse and battery after fondling the breast of a woman sitting in front of him during a flight out of Detroit; he was sentenced to five days of community service and two years of court supervision. Then, in 2002, he was charged after fondling the breast of another woman sleeping in the seat in front of him on a flight from California to Detroit; he admitted the incident and had asked if he could just apologise!
14 NOVEMBER: NEW YORK Luis Robinson, 61, was released from prison and deported to Panama. Robinson had served 34 years for killing two people and wounding three others in a 1977 bus hijacking that wound up at JFK Airport.
16 NOVEMBER: PARIS
Film star Jonathan Rhys Meyers, 33, was fined approx. $1,350 for punching a waiter and threatening to kill three French police officers while he was drunk at Paris' Charles de
Gaulle Airport two years earlier.
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