Police in Florida say a 62-year-old woman who’s been caught not once, but twice stowing away aboard a plane she definitely didn’t have a boarding pass to board or ticket to fly on has done it again. This time, police say the 63-year-old woman slipped aboard a flight in Minnesota bound for Florida, and impersonated a hotel guest once she got there for extra measure.
The alleged stowaway made it past airport security in Minneapolis and onto a flight to Jacksonville, FL without a boarding pass, reports FirstCoastNews, though it’s unclear which airline she wiggled past. The Transportation Security Administration says it’s investigating how she wriggled past agents.
Once she arrived at the airport, police say she hopped onto a shuttle bound for a resort nearby, confirming that she was a certain guest after the driver asked if that’s who she was.
When she got to the resort, police say she even checked into a $300/night villa under the guest’s name. No one was the wiser until the real guest arrived hours later, and the story fell to pieces.
A concierge called the room and asked what her name was, and she provided the real guest’s name. When asked to come by the desk to verify an error, the woman vanished, police wrote in the arrest report.
She was found yesterday morning staying in a room under renovation, and was detained until police arrived. She’s been charged with felony fraud, as well as misdemeanor trespassing, according to the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office.
‘Serial stowaway’ slips aboard Jacksonville flight [FirstCoastNews]
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
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