Man Secretly Lived in Chicago Airport for Three Months
18 Jan 2021
On Sunday, prosecutors detailed how Aditya Singh lived for three months in Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
Cook County Judge Susana Ortiz presided over the session in which the story of 36-year-old Aditya Singh’s temporary residence in O’Hare International Airport unfolded. “So if I understand you correctly,” Ortiz asked, “you’re telling me that an unauthorized, nonemployee individual was allegedly living within a secure part of the O’Hare airport terminal from Oct. 19, 2020, to Jan. 16, 2021, and was not detected? I want to understand you correctly.”
Just the day before, two United Airlines employees approached Singh. When they asked to see his identification, Singh showed them the airport ID badge around his neck. The badge apparently belonged to an operations manager who had reported it missing months before, in October. Singh had presumably been using it as part of his cover for m
A California man who police said claimed to be too afraid to fly due to COVID-19 hid out for three months in a secured area of O Hare International Airport until .
CHICAGO — A California man who police said claimed to be too afraid to fly due to COVID-19 hid out for three months in a secured area of O’Hare International Airport until his weekend arrest, prosecutors said Sunday. Aditya Singh, 36, is charged with felony criminal trespass to a restricted area of an airport and misdemeanor theft. In bond court Sunday, prosecutors said Singh arrived at O’Hare .