14 FEBRUARY: YEREVAN, ARMENIA Karen Simonyan was arrested on charges that he attempted to blackmail Zvartnots Airport manager Juan Pablo Guechigian out of 80 million Armenian Drams (approx. US$ 195,000) by posing as a member of an international terrorist organisation and threatening to kill his family.
15 FEBRUARY: LUTON, UK Brian McColghan, 64, was barred from boarding an easyJet flight to Lisbon after he used the word "bomb" in front of staff who would not let him check his bag in early for the flight. The staff had cited security reasons for preventing his early check-in to which McColghan claims he responded that if there was a bomb in the bag he’d be blowing himself up.
18 FEBRUARY: LAGUARDIA, NEW YORK Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Da'Quan Bowers was arrested after a loaded .40-calibre gun was discovered in his baggage as he boarded a flight from LaGuardia Airport.
1 MARCH: COEUR D’ALENE, IDAHO Jared L. Salamina, 22, was arrested after driving through a fence and crashing his car into the fuel depot at Coeur d'Alene airport causing an estimated $40,000 in damage to property owned by Resort Aviation.
3 MARCH: JAPAN
Yusuke Katayama, 30, was arrested in conjunction with his alleged hacking of a computer to issue a threat against Japan Airlines
(JAL). Katayama is accused of seizing control of an Osaka anime producer's computer on 1 August 2012 and then using it to email a threat to JAL stating that, on board a flight from Narita to New York, "a comrade has carried a bomb that is set to explode over the ocean ". As the threat resulted in the JAL flight returning to Narita, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office has decided to build a case under the hijacking law instead of just for business obstruction.
11 MARCH: WARSAW, POLAND Police officers arrested a man who threatened a group of religious Israeli students at Chopin International Airport whilst they were waiting for buses to take them to visit Holocaust-era concentration camps. The man was reported to be carrying an iron bar and had shouted anti-Semitic insults.
20 FEBRUARY: HONOLULU, HAWAII Timothy David Hershman, 58, was indicted for allegedly making a hoax call to the FBI in January claiming that a passenger on board an Alaska Airlines flight to Seattle was a hijacker.
25 FEBRUARY: INVERCARGILL, NEW ZEALAND It was reported that Jeff Silvester, 50, was sentenced to six months' supervision and fined $750 for making homophobic and racist remarks towards crew members on a flight he had boarded on 31 December 2011. He was removed from the flight before its departure.
25 FEBRUARY: PUDONG, CHINA Chen, 47, was sentenced to four years in prison and fined 12,000 yuan (approx. $2,000) for stealing a Louis Vuitton handbag, together with its contents which included an iPhone, a Rolex watch, jewellery and cash, on a flight from Malaysia to Shanghai in July 2012.
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12 MARCH: ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA Seyba Diallo was found guilty on two charges of obstructing his removal from the U.S. Security authorities had failed to deport Seyba Diallo, an illegal alien from the Central African Republic, on two occasions (November 2011 and March 2012) after he had attacked them at the airport. Diallo has been in the U.S. for nine years and, bizarrely, may now get his wish to stay…but only if he is sentenced (in June) to a possible ten years in jail for his behaviour.
13 MARCH: CAIRO, EGYPT Seven Palestinians, who were in possession of maps and sketches of Egyptian government buildings, were arrested on their arrival from Syria.
13 MARCH: JFK, NEW YORK Prodromos Vasilopoulos, 23, was arrested as he was about to board a plane for London after he had managed to get through a security checkpoint with a 3,800-watt stun gun in his carry-on luggage. Vasilopoulos was arrested at the gate as he was wanted in connection with the alleged rape of his girlfriend the day before; the stun gun was found by chance in a subsequent bag search.
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20 MARCH: PHILADELPHIA
Philippe Jeannard, a 61-year-old Frenchman, was arrested for allegedly impersonating a pilot on board
a US Airways flight preparing to depart for Florida. Jeannard was wearing a shirt with an Air France logo and captain's epaulets on his shoulders; he also carried an Air France ID card. Initially Jeannard asked gate agents for an upgrade, but he became upset when he was told there were no seats available. He was offered the opportunity to speak with the pilots and was taken to the cockpit where he told the crew he was a B-747 pilot. He then took a jump seat but was told by the gate agent that if he was going to sit there additional paperwork and checks would need to be carried out. Jeannard then became verbally abusive and, when he admitted that he was not a pilot, police were summoned.
20 MARCH: PENNSYLVANIA Mohammed Rashed, 63, was released from federal prison in Pennsylvania. Rashed had placed a bomb on board Pan Am flight 830 bound for Honolulu in 1982; the device detonated, killing 16-year-old Japanese student Toru Ozawa. Fifteen other passengers were also wounded, including Ozawa's parents, but the pilots managed to land the plane. Rashed was released in exchange for information on other terrorist plots under an agreement that will also deport him to a country of his choice. Rashed was first captured in Greece in 1988, where he was tried and given a 15-year sentence. He was released in 1996 after serving eight years and extradited to the United States from Egypt two years later. In the original incident on 11 August 1982, Rashed had boarded the aircraft in Baghdad, along with his wife Christine Pinter and their son, and set the device under seat 47K before disembarking in Tokyo. Ozawa sat in 47K on the next leg of the flight to Honolulu.
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