CBS News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\nFlorida man Samuel Prescott Lackey was arrested after climbing a barbed wire fence, sneaking onto a JetBlue flight and falling asleep onboard, police said. Broward Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n
Lackey was allegedly caught on surveillance footage walking along a service road near the airport before hopping an eight-foot fence and walking into a hangar, the Broward County Aviation Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n
He then allegedly climbed portable stairs left against a JetBlue aircraft for maintenance workers, boarded the plane and hid in a lavatory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to investigators, the plane\u2019s door had been left open while it was parked at the JetScape hangar during overnight maintenance work.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During a routine interior inspection the following morning, JetBlue employees found Lackey asleep inside the plane.<\/p>\n
Lackey allegedly slept onboard a JetBlue aircraft overnight while it received maintenance. Markus Mainka \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
Lackey was arrested and is being held at the Broward Main Jail on a $10,000 bond. CBS News<\/p>\n
The Broward County Aviation Department said the hangar where the plane was parked \u201cwas in a remote location away from FLL\u2019s passenger terminal complex.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lackey, who state officials said was on parole out of Louisiana for burglary, later admitted to scaling the barbed wire fence, authorities said.<\/p>\n
He was charged with criminal mischief, burglary of an occupied conveyance, and interrupting or impairing critical infrastructure<\/p>\n
JetBlue said it \u201cwill assist law enforcement with any relevant investigation.\u201d NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n
In a statement, JetBlue Corporate Communications said \u201cThe safety of our customers and crewmembers is JetBlue\u2019s first priority. We will assist law enforcement with any relevant investigation,\u201d according to the outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The overnight snooze-fest resulted in a JetBlue flight delay that cost the airline approximately $2,400, court documents said.<\/p>\n
The Post reached out to JetBlue, JetScape Services and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He winged it. An ex-con climbed an eight-foot barbed wire fence at a Florida airport and made his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20371,21090,8812,4864,28,30,29,249,1225,3014,4278],"class_list":["post-365060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-airlines","tag-airplanes","tag-airports","tag-arrests","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-jail","tag-jetblue","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365060","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=365060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}