Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe man who’s accused of driving his blue Mustang through a gate at the airport in Daytona Beach and trying to get on planes has been indicted by a federal grand jury. The Department of Justice on Thursday said Bryan John Parker, 58, of Holly Hill, is being charged with damaging, destroying, or disabling airport facilities and entering an aircraft or airport area in violation of security requirements. He could spend 30 years in federal prison if convicted. >> Video above is previous coverage’I crashed my car’Around 4:30 p.m., on March 25, Parker, in his blue Ford Mustang, plowed through a gate at Daytona Beach International Airport. According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, Parker was “highly intoxicated” when he rammed the gate and headed toward the Embry-Riddle area of the airport.Parker then approached an occupied, running airplane and attempted to board it but was unsuccessful because the plane had already been locked.Parker made two more attempts, ultimately boarding an unoccupied plane.According to VSO, he was not on the plane for long before airport operations and Embry-Riddle security took him into custody.At one point, Parker was running around on foot, urinating on the taxiway, and chasing after taxiing aircraft. In the video of his arrest, Parker says he doesn’t remember.”I went to an AA meeting … the next thing I know, I’m doing cocaine, drinking and smoking pot,” Parker says to the deputy.”So you were doing all kinds of drugs and ran through a gate?” the deputy asks.”Yeah and I crashed my car,” Parker says.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The man who’s accused of driving his blue Mustang through a gate at the airport in Daytona Beach and trying to get on planes has been indicted by a federal grand jury. <\/p>\n
The Department of Justice on Thursday said Bryan John Parker, 58, of Holly Hill, is being charged with damaging, destroying, or disabling airport facilities and entering an aircraft or airport area in violation of security requirements. <\/p>\n
He could spend 30 years in federal prison if convicted. <\/p>\n
>> Video above is previous coverage<\/p>\n
‘I crashed my car’\t<\/p>\n
Around 4:30 p.m., on March 25, Parker, in his blue Ford Mustang, plowed through a gate at Daytona Beach International Airport. <\/p>\n
According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, Parker was “highly intoxicated” when he rammed the gate and headed toward the Embry-Riddle area of the airport.<\/p>\n
Parker then approached an occupied, running airplane and attempted to board it but was unsuccessful because the plane had already been locked.<\/p>\n
Parker made two more attempts, ultimately boarding an unoccupied plane.<\/p>\n
According to VSO, he was not on the plane for long before airport operations and Embry-Riddle security took him into custody.<\/p>\n
At one point, Parker was running around on foot, urinating on the taxiway, and chasing after taxiing aircraft. <\/p>\n
In the video of his arrest, Parker says he doesn’t remember.<\/p>\n
“I went to an AA meeting … the next thing I know, I’m doing cocaine, drinking and smoking pot,” Parker says to the deputy.<\/p>\n
“So you were doing all kinds of drugs and ran through a gate?” the deputy asks.<\/p>\n
“Yeah and I crashed my car,” Parker says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NOW. NEW BODY CAMERA VIDEO SHOWS A VOLUSIA COUNTY MAN\u2019S ARREST. INVESTIGATORS SAY AFTER HE CRASHED HIS CAR…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28656,6731,104706,3160,11853,4561,104705,28,104707,30,29,42749,3985,2391,104703,10258,104704,1284],"class_list":{"0":"post-234724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-aircraft","9":"tag-airport","10":"tag-blue-mustang","11":"tag-daytona-beach","12":"tag-department","13":"tag-deputy","14":"tag-federal-grand-jury","15":"tag-florida","16":"tag-florida-airport-taxiway","17":"tag-florida-headlines","18":"tag-florida-news","19":"tag-gate","20":"tag-justice","21":"tag-man","22":"tag-parker","23":"tag-plane","24":"tag-security-requirement","25":"tag-thursday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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