Air Watch
16 NOVEMBER: MALAGA, SPAIN 13 OCTOBER: TEL AVIV 30 OCTOBER: ALBANY, NEW YORK
On arrival, a passenger on a flight from Moscow was A 31-year old man was arrested after he climbed the William Contreras Ramos, 20, is alleged to have flown
found to be carrying a kilo of fireworks, consisting of 33 perimeter fence and ran towards some parked aircraft. from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Albany via JFK with a
rockets and 26 bangers, in her carry-on baggage. 14 OCTOBER: DUBAI folded straight razor with a blade wrapped in a shirt.
A Russian doctor, 43, was ordered to be deported Ramos had by-passed security at JFK, yet his inflight
from Dubai after he was found guilty of molesting an location was only identified after the flight had taken off.
Azerbaijani flight attendant, aged 29, on an He was arrested on arrival.
Emirates flight from Moscow on 3
rd
August. He 2 NOVEMBER: KEFLAVIK, ICELAND
grabbed the woman, then offered to pay her to have Eight members of a Hells Angels motorcycle club were
sex with him. He also received a 3-month denied entry to Iceland, arrested and then deported the
suspended jail term for molestation and was fined next day. It is alleged that some of the arrested Hells
Dh2,000 for consuming liquor. Angels had serious criminal histories and had
17 OCTOBER: EL ALTO, BOLIVIA committed crimes related to blackmail, drug trade and
Din Dona Thin, 20, was detained after arriving on an violent behavior.
American Airlines flight from Miami with 500 bullets in 5 NOVEMBER: BHUBANESWAR, INDIA
18 NOVEMBER: NEW DELHI her luggage. She was released the next day as no Sriram Soni was arrested for carrying an unlicensed
Several hundred people were delayed at New Delhi’s offence had been committed under the country’s laws. .32 mm revolver and six cartridges onto an Air
international airport as six Air India flights were delayed, 19 OCTOBER: BOSTON Deccan flight.
resulting in paramilitary troops being called in to control Police arrested Nick Travers, 19, after he allegedly 7 NOVEMBER: CHICAGO
angry passengers. barricaded himself in his car on the sixth floor of a 23 illegal immigrants employed by Ideal Staffing
parking garage at the Manchester-Boston Regional Solutions Inc., were arrested and accused of using fake
Airport. Travers had a Glock handgun in his security badges to work in critical areas of O’Hare
JUDGEMENTS & ARRESTS possession, which negotiators persuaded him to International Airport. An investigation is alleged to have
give up. found that 110 of the 134 badges issued to Ideal
2 OCTOBER: SYDNEY 20 OCTOBER: ABERDEEN Staffing workers did not match the individuals who
Burkhardt Kottsieper, 56, was sentenced to 12 months Billy-Joe Fraser, 22, and Karen Hendry, 26, carried them.
in prison for his drunken behaviour on an Etihad flight were charged with being drunk on a flight from 7 NOVEMBER: PITTSBURGH
from Abu Dhabi. Travelling for a holiday with his wife, he Norwich in August. John Schanz Jr. was found in a tree on airport property,
got into a fight with cabin crew having consumed at 22 OCTOBER: DUBOIS, PENNSYLVANIA armed with a bow and arrow for, allegedly, hunting
least eight glasses of whisky. He had threatened to 2 men were apprehended after one tried to carry a deer! He was cited for trespass and fined for damaging
bring the plane down and to open one of the doors. loaded 9mm handgun into the DuBois Regional Airport. the tree.
3 OCTOBER: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM 23 OCTOBER: ATLANTIC CITY 8 NOVEMBER: LONDON
Le Van Manh, 17, and Nguyen Tien Hoang, also 17, Paul Colella, 61, was arrested as he tried to board a Samina Malik, 23, was found guilty of
were arrested for stealing 52 sets of landing lights over Spirit Airlines flight to Orlando with a loaded .25-calibre “possessing records likely to be used in
the course of 4 nights starting 3
rd
October. The lamps, semi-automatic pistol in his carry-on. terrorism”. Malik was employed airside at a
with an estimated value of US$31,000, were recovered 23 OCTOBER: BALTIMORE WH Smith retail outlet at London Heathrow
from a junk shop by police. Bryan Leon Spann, 35, was sentenced to three and called herself the “Lyrical Terrorist”.
5 OCTOBER: WICK, SCOTLAND years probation for punching two America West She wrote poems entitled “How To Behead”
Kevin Harrold, 34, appeared in court having been crewmembers aboard a flight from Phoenix to and “The Living Martyrs” and had even
accused of acting in a reckless and negligent manner Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood written, on the back of a receipt from the
likely to endanger an Eastern Airways flight from Marshall Airport in March. He was also ordered to shop, “The desire within me increases every
Aberdeen to Wick. He was released on bail with the undergo a substance abuse evaluation, complete day to go for martyrdom.”
special condition that he did not board a commercial an anger management programme, write a letter to
flight, other than the helicopter taking him to and from the two flight attendants and donate $1,500 to the
the oil rig where he worked. Air Charity Network.
7 OCTOBER: AMAUSI, INDIA 30 OCTOBER: McCALLEN
Pradeep Kumar and his wife were arrested for carrying Juan Rodrigo Rodriguez, 19, was arrested for
a loaded unlicensed pistol which was detected during making four bomb threats at McAllen-Miller
screening. International Airport by emailing the airport’s
11 OCTOBER: ATLANTA website. On 22nd August he sent two messages
Details emerge of a lawsuit filed against Delta Airlines in saying that explosives were in the terminal and
Fulton County State by the family of an 11-year old girl on an inbound flight, resulting in an evacuation of
who had flown alone from San Diego to Atlanta on 6
th
the airport and all flights. On 7th September, he
January. The family claim she was sitting next to a man said that a black BMW in the car park contained
who stroked her face while rubbing himself. When the an IED which almost resulted in a BMW
man temporarily got up, the girl asked a flight attendant belonging to a doctor being blown up. And, on
to change her seat and was refused. The man returned 10th September, he said that the control tower
and allegedly molested the girl a second time before had explosives and that an inbound plane from
the girl’s seat was changed. Houston would soon explode.
6 December 2007 Aviationsecurityinternational
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