The lady who stowed away on a airplane from New York City to Paris late final month was arrested on Monday after attempting to go away the nation once more, this time on a bus sure for Canada, two legislation enforcement officers mentioned.
The lady, Svetlana Dali, had been launched and ordered to put on an ankle monitor after a Dec. 5 federal court docket listening to in Brooklyn on a cost of stowing away aboard a Delta Air Lines airplane to Paris from Kennedy International Airport.
Ms. Dali, 57, a U.S. everlasting resident who emigrated from Russia, was supposed to remain at a buddy’s house in Philadelphia, one of many officers mentioned. But she minimize off her monitor and made her option to upstate New York, the place she rode a bus towards the Canadian border, the official mentioned.
Ms. Dali had a ticket for that experience, the official mentioned, not like the flight to Paris. She was charged with sneaking aboard that flight with no boarding cross or a passport.
On Monday evening, Ms. Dali was in custody in Buffalo, Barbara Burns, a spokeswoman for the U.S. lawyer’s workplace for the Western District of New York, mentioned. Ms. Dali is scheduled to seem in court docket there on Tuesday afternoon earlier than Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer after which to be returned to custody in Brooklyn, Ms. Burns mentioned.
Phone and electronic mail messages left for the lawyer who represented Ms. Dali in court docket in Brooklyn, Michael Schneider, weren’t returned.
Ms. Dali’s arrest on Monday was beforehand reported by CNN.
To get to Paris final month, Ms. Dali exploited weaknesses within the safety system at Kennedy throughout the busiest interval of the yr for air journey by mixing in with crowds of boarding vacationers, prosecutors in Brooklyn mentioned.
She slipped previous a checkpoint by mixing in with the flight crew of a Spanish airline after which walked, undetected by Delta staff, onto a totally booked airplane, they mentioned. During the seven-hour flight, Ms. Dali tried to keep away from discover by ducking into the plane’s loos.
Delta returned Ms. Dali to Kennedy after she had spent a couple of week within the custody of French authorities. She was arrested there by F.B.I. brokers.
At Ms. Dali’s first look in court docket in Brooklyn this month, Brooke Theodora, an assistant U.S. lawyer for the Eastern District of New York, mentioned, “We’re involved for a danger of flight right here reasonably than the character of the offense.”
Olivia Bensimon contributed reporting.
