JUDGEMENTS & ARRESTS
2 APRIL: YEREVAN, ARMENIA
Arsen Papazian, the head of the Department of Customs Control at Yerevan International Airport Zvartnots, was arrested by the Armenian Special Investigation Service on suspicion of smuggling over 0.5kg of diamonds on 1 March.
4 APRIL: JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA A Nepalese truck driver was arrested after her drove a service truck into a passenger lounge at Jeddah International Airport, killing two Iranian pilgrims and injuring four others.
4 APRIL: FRANCE A French court found Air France guilty of discrimination for having removed Horia Ankour, a pro-Palestinian activist, from a flight from Nice to Tel Aviv in April 2012 because she was not Jewish. The airline was ordered to pay €13,000 in fines and damages. Air France claimed they had been told she would not be permitted to enter Israel.
4 APRIL: IQALUIT, CANADA
Darren Edward Cosby, 39, was fined $2,000 and ordered to reimburse Air Transat approximately $13,875 for his drunken behaviour on a flight from Vancouver to London on 27 March which had prompted
its diversion to Iqaluit. He had been restrained, broken free and made a whole range of threatening comments including: “slit their throats”, “send their genitals to their mothers”, “Welsh men should be slaughtered” and, in reference to the flight attendants, “those bitch stewardesses”. He had bitten and attacked crew and passengers who were attempting to restrain him.
7 APRIL: MILWAUKEE Pedro Desir, 61, was arrested for allegedly threatening colleagues with a butcher’s knife at Mitchell International Airport. He was charged with disorderly conduct and use of a dangerous weapon.
12 APRIL: COCHIN, INDIA John Christopher Marlow, his daughter Suseela, and her Malaysian friend were arrested and charged with trespassing in the security area of Cochin International Airport. The three went to the airport to see off Suseela’s friend; in order to gain entry to the airside, Marlow allegedly entered all their names on the photocopy of the friend’s e-ticket.
16 APRIL: PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN The airport authorities discovered that €30,000 was missing from its safe. A technician responsible for the surveillance cameras was later arrested and accused of disabling the cameras that monitor the safe before removing the money. The Guardia Civil searched the suspect’s house and recovered €2,000.
17 APRIL: CHENNAI, INDIA
Mohammed Azarudin, a Thai Airways passenger, was arrested on arrival from Bangkok when he was found to be carrying six yellow pythons along with other restricted wildlife.
17 APRIL: GLASGOW, SCOTLAND Gillian Hutchison was acquitted of smoking in a disabled toilet at Glasgow Airport even though she had admitted doing so. The prosecutors failed to establish that signs prohibiting smoking were effectively displayed at the time of the incident in February last year.
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8 APRIL: CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA Mickell Frazier was arrested after 275 gallons of jet fuel was found in a storage facility near Charlotte Douglas International Airport. It is believed that Frazier was responsible for stealing the fuel.
10 APRIL: PRESTON, UK
Paul Jackson, 41, was made the subject of a hospital order for a bomb threat against Stansted Airport in which he claimed a 15lb fertiliser bomb was being driven to the airport area in a white Transit van. He also claimed to have supplied the switches for the bomb in his role as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
11 APRIL: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM Vietnam Airlines Captain Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Y and co-pilot Nguyen Xuan Hai were both fined and suspended for a month after allowing a celebrity model, Ly Nha Ky, to pose for photographs in the cockpit during a flight from Hong Kong to Hanoi.
22 APRIL: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Kenneth Smith, 26, was sentenced to 15 months in prison, and ordered to pay $17,300 in restitution for costs endured by the emergency services, for having telephoned in a threat against a flight last September. Smith had tried to implicate a love rival, who was on the flight, by saying that the man was carrying liquid explosives.
23 APRIL: ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO Robert Mondragon, 37, was arrested in an airside freight area of Albuquerque Airport after emerging from a storm drain.
24 APRIL: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Reports emerged that a group of Aboriginal men were suing Qantas for kicking them off a flight three years earlier and for 'false imprisonment'. They had been returning from Cairns when they were escorted from the plane and they allege that they were then held on a bus for 90 minutes. A Qantas flight attendant, Kelly Kalimnios, claimed that one of the men had referred to her as being "white trash" and that they had been acting in a rowdy and boisterous manner.
24 APRIL: JERUSALEM, ISRAEL Israel’s Attorney General, Yehuda Weinstein, declared that Israeli security officials at Ben Gurion airport are legally allowed to demand access to tourists' email accounts and deny them entry to the country if they refuse. It is only done in exceptional cases when suspicious signs are evident and only done with the passenger’s agreement.
28 APRIL: DALLAS, TEXAS Ruben Martinez Jimenez, 36, was arrested at Dallas Love Field after he allegedly drove past a security guard and entered a hangar. When approached by the Police, he started yelling “Jihad, Jihad…”
29 APRIL: MINSK, BELARUS The Belarusian Prosecutor General's Office decided to extradite Sergei Kabalov to Russia for allegedly attempting to hijack a Kogalymavia flight, en route to Egypt, whilst intoxicated on 11 January 2013. Kabalov never returned from his vacation, but was detained by police in Belarus on 7 March.
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