NEW YORK – The lady accused of sneaking onto a Delta Air Lines flight from New York City to Paris last week was on her means again to New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport Wednesday.
The suspect, recognized by two individuals accustomed to the matter as Svetlana Dali, boarded a Delta flight to return to New York from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. She’s being escorted by French regulation enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol brokers. The airplane was greeted by police when it landed.
Dali, 57, is predicted to be arrested in New York Wednesday night on trespassing and theft of service costs, an individual accustomed to the matter instructed CBS News. So far, there are not any plans to cost her with a federal crime, an individual accustomed to the matter instructed CBS News. The Transportation Security Administration says it has opened a civil case towards her.
The Philadelphia resident initially managed to sneak previous airport safety and board a Delta flight to Paris on Nov. 26 with out a boarding move. TSA officers mentioned the lady used a bunch of passengers to bypass the ID examine at JFK earlier than coming into the TSA checkpoint. She went by a physique scanner, and her bag was flagged throughout screening for having two bottles of water, which she discarded.
She was found as a stowaway whereas the airplane was nonetheless in midair and was taken into custody when she landed in Paris and refused entry to France.
CBS News confirmed she created a disruption on her return flight Saturday when authorities initially tried to take her to the States. She was faraway from that flight by French regulation enforcement, inflicting a delay of greater than two hours.
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