AIR WATCH 17 NOVEMBER: SALT LAKE CITY
Craig Swapp, a lawyer, was arrested when a handgun and a magazine full of ammunition was found in his luggage.
20 NOVEMBER: MANASSAS, VIRGINIA Harold Rodman, 52, was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual battery, object sexual penetration, forcible sodomy and abduction with intent to defile following an off-airport incident. Rodman is employed by the TSA and was wearing his uniform at the time when he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman near her home after having shown her his TSA badge.
27 NOVEMBER: ACCRA, GHANA Whilst under arrest in Ghana, Kotoka International Airport security supervisor Edmund Darkwah, 37, was charged in the United States with conspiracy to import heroin through Dulles International Airport and two counts of heroin distribution. Darkwah is alleged to have helped escort couriers through the airport in Accra, and was paid $2,000 for each time he assisted one. He awaits extradition.
28 NOVEMBER: ISLEWORTH, UK Katherine Goldberg, 25, was fi ned £1,500 and ordered to do 80 hours community work for her intoxicated behaviour on a Virgin Atlantic fl ight from Johannesburg in August. Goldberg had made a sexual suggestion to an air steward and, at one point, sat on his lap and grabbed hold of his genitals through his trousers, saying “Let me and you go somewhere. You can touch me anywhere you want, I don't mind.” Goldberg claimed that she thought the steward was her boyfriend.
16 SEPTEMBER: KOLKATA Three passengers were arrested for their allegedly intoxicated behaviour on a Kingfi sher fl ight from Bangkok to Kolkata. They were refused alcohol but then started drinking their own whiskey.
25 SEPTEMBER: DELHI Vinod Sethi is alleged to have molested an air hostess on a Thai Airways fl ight as it was about to land at Delhi Airport.
26 SEPTEMBER: DAYTONA BEACH
Mubashar Choudry, 53, was arrested for his drunken behaviour on a U.S. Airways fl ight from Charlotte. As the fl ight approached Daytona Beach he is alleged to
have sexually harassed the woman seated next to him.
27 SEPTEMBER: BOISE Trevor L. Hess, 26, was arrested after he had boarded a Horizon fl ight bound for Lewiston in an intoxicated state and refused to comply with crew instructions.
2 OCTOBER: CALGARY A passenger was removed from a Lufthansa fl ight before its departure for Frankfurt as a result of his behaviour.
21 NOVEMBER: ST.LOUIS Dorian Williams, 36, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for threatening to bomb the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport on 15 January 2010.
26 NOVEMBER: CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND Troy Rudigar Hutchinson, 34, was arrested for assaulting another man with intent to injure, and the intentional damage of an automatic teller machine at Christchurch Airport. Hutchinson commenced a hunger strike in gaol whilst awaiting trial.
26 NOVEMBER: BOSTON Grant Smith, a 47-year-old university professor, was arrested after allegedly viewing child pornography on a fl ight from Salt Lake City to Boston; Police say they found sexual images of girls as young as six on Smith's laptop.
12 28 NOVEMBER: ONTARIO
Raju Nishant Alengadan, 25, was arrested trying to board a fl ight at Ontario International Airport with martial-arts throwing stars in his carry-on baggage.
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14 SEPTEMBER: LONDON GATWICK A 22-year-old man tried to open the door on a Thomson fl ight from Palma de Majorca to Newcastle allegedly yelling, "It's OK, we are just on a simulator" as he did so. He was restrained and the fl ight diverted to London.
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4 OCTOBER: DETROIT Jared L. Hansen, 31, allegedly threatened to shoot air marshals, hijack the flight, and urinate in the cabin of the Delta Airlines flight he was on between Amsterdam and Detroit. He is also said to have exposed himself. Concern was heightened as the incident occurred the day Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab appeared in court to stand trial on charges he tried lighting a bomb in his underwear on the same route in 2009.
4 OCTOBER: MONTREAL Jamie Lee Prefontaine, 26, was arrested following a brawl on an Air Canada Jazz fl ight set to depart from Montreal to Winnipeg. The fi ght started when a man sat on the armrest of a seat and broke his neighbour's headphones; the fl ight attendant who intervened was injured. Prefontaine, a renowned rapper, resisted arrest.
December 2011 Aviationsecurityinternational
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