{"id":146324,"date":"2026-03-23T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146324\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:26:08","slug":"new-jersey-man-sentenced-to-prison-for-sexually-assaulting-woman-on-philadelphia-bound-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146324\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey man sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting woman on Philadelphia-bound flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey man was sentenced to prison for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/new-jersey-vernon-baker-airplane-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sexually assaulting a woman seated next to him on a Philadelphia-bound <\/a>flight, United States Attorney David Metcalf announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Vernon Baker, 41, of Linden, was sentenced to 25 months in prison and one year of supervised release for sexually assaulting a woman who was sitting next to him on a flight from Los Angeles to Philadelphia. Baker pleaded guilty to one count of abusive sexual contact in December after he was charged through an indictment in January 2025, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 30, 2024, Baker was on a commercial flight from Los Angeles to Philadelphia, where he made sexual advances to the woman sitting next to him, officials said. The woman refused Baker&#8217;s sexual advances, but he then exposed himself on the flight, groped the woman and untied her pants, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woman immediately reported the sexual assault to flight attendants on the plane, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The case was investigated by the FBI, the Federal Air Marshal Service and the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Jersey man was sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting a woman seated next to him on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1250,915,28,69,71,70,337],"class_list":["post-146324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-los-angeles","tag-new-jersey","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}