Prosecutors said Aditya Singh was too afraid to fly back to Los Angeles due to COVID-19.
Cook County prosecutors said Singh was found with an airport worker s misplaced credentials and survived inside a secure area of O Hare Airport.
Singh arrived at O Hare s Terminal 2 on a flight from LA back on October 19th according to prosecutors, and has lived in the airport s security zone since then. That is an egregious violation after over $100 billion has been spent on aviation security in this country in the last 20 years, said Michael Masters, CEO of the Secure Community Network.
On Saturday, two United Airlines employees confronted Singh and asked to see his work ID, which had been reported as stolen by an airport operations manager, prosecutors said.
Aditya Singh, 36-year, lives in a suburb of Los Angeles was arrested on Saturday for living in a secure area at Chicago s O Hare International Airport since October 19
Assistant state attorney Kathleen Hagerty told Cook County judge Susana Ortiz that other passengers had been giving food to Singh, who does not have a criminal background. Hagerty said Singh had found the badge in the airport and was “scared to go home due to Covid”.
Ortiz reportedly told the court: “You’re telling me that an unauthorised, non-employee individual was allegedly living within a secure part of the O’Hare airport terminal from 10 October, 2020, to 16 January, 2021, and was not detected? I want to understand you correctly.”
After finding Singh, the United Airlines employees called 911. Police took him into custody on Saturday morning.
O'Hare International Airport employees called 911 on Saturday after asking a man for his ID and discovering the airport badge he presented had been reported missing months earlier. Then the story. US News Summaries. | Newser
Prosecutors said Aditya Singh, 36, was too afraid to fly back to Los Angeles due to COVID-19.
Cook County prosecutors said Singh was found with an airport worker s misplaced credentials and survived inside a secure area of the airport.
Singh arrived at O Hare s Terminal 2 on a flight from Los Angeles back on October 19, according to prosecutors.
He was allegedly living inside the airport s security zone since then.
On Saturday, two United Airlines employees confronted Singh and asked to see his work ID which had been reported as stolen by an airport operations manager.
Singh was taken into custody and told authorities he found the credentials and was afraid to fly home in the pandemic.