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Posted on 08/10/2005 9:06:17 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
HOUSTON -- FBI agents on Tuesday arrested a San Antonio man accused of planting a note on a Southwest Airlines flight announcing falsely that a bomb was on the plane.
Elias Jeremiah Cervantez, 20, of San Antonio, was charged Monday with making a false bomb threat to an aircraft. Cervantez confessed to FBI agents that he wrote the note on a gum wrapper, according to an affidavit signed by special agent Jamaal C. King
A passenger on a Southwest flight from Dallas to Houston on Friday found the note in the seat pocket in front of her seat, written on a gum wrapper, the affidavit said. She alerted the crew, who taxied the plane to an isolated area of Hobby Airport and evacuated the passengers.
Airport operations were temporarily shut down while the threat was investigated. A bomb-sniffing dog and federal and local law enforcement officials searched the plane but no bomb was found.
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A flight attendant on the plane told the FBI that she recalled Cervantez and another passenger on an earlier flight on the same plane from Midland to Dallas who were sitting near where the note was found.
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Cervantez's note read, "There's a bomb on the plane!" Another note asked whoever found it to call a phone number and tell them. It was accompanied by a drawing of a happy face.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Throw the book at him. :)
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The judge's sentence, no doubt, will be accompanied by a drawing of a happy face.
BTTT
I think you need a stupidity ping.
This jackass needs to be sent away for a long time. Things like this just screws up everything for honest travelers.
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According to the article, he can get up to five years plus a max fine of $250,000. Would be nice if he'd spend those five years chipping away at a rockpile or working on a chain gang, but I don't know if those punishments are even used anymore. Too bad. Some hard work for five years might make him think twice before pulling such a prank again.
twerp.I hope they give him a good thrashing.
I was on the Burbank to Phoenix Southwest flight July 25th that got turned around, because of a "false" bomb threat.
You could achieve the same effect by "accidentally" leaving a backpack (with a peanut butter sandwich inside) at any subway station in the country. And forgetting your lunch is not yet, I think, a federal crime.
I would put him to work washing Southwest airplanes, but that would put a plane washer out of work.
I thought it was a Dallas-to-Corpus Christi flight that got diverted to Houston.
Sic the dogs on the punk anyway.
I think the Houston stop was scheduled.
I hope you weren't expecting accuracy from the news media. All inbound flights from DAL to CRP on Southwest are routed DAL-HOU-CRP. The flight would have landed in Houston anyway. It's just that when they landed, the airplane didn't go to the gate, and the passengers were searched and questioned before being allowed to continue to CRP.
I would put him to work washing Southwest airplanes, but that would put a plane washer out of work.
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And they probably have machines to make the work easier. Nah...chipping at rockpile is much harder. :)
I never expect accuracy from presstitutes. Maybe the reason they want us to only excerpt them is that we'd have to pick between only a small part of the various misinformation/lies/propaganda in the average LeftStreamMedia story and some of that would escape notice..
Suspect Arrested In SWA Bomb Threat
Wed, 10 Aug '05
Plane Had To Be Evacuated At Hobby
FBI agents have arrested a 20-year old man they say planted a threatening note on a Southwest Airlines flight from Dallas to Houston last week.
As ANN reported in real time, Flight 21 was quarantined and passengers were evacuated one-by-one as authorities searched for any evidence that a bomb was indeed on board. None was found.
Houston's Hobby Airport was shut down for about 20-minutes during the investigation.
Passengers aboard the plane found not one, but two notes written on gum wrappers -- one containing the bomb threat. The other consisted of a smiley-face caricature and a cell phone number.
That number led agents to 20-year old Elias Jeremiah Cervantez of San Antonio. He was arrested Tuesday after meeting with agents in TX, while visiting family.
"We were just making dumb jokes," Cervantez's roommate, Josh Michael Gonzales, told the Houston Chronicle. The two young men thought, "If somebody finds that, it's going to be funny."
"People need to understand that we take these threats very seriously," Interim U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg told the Chronicle. "Not funny. Don't do it."
Cervantez now faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Who's laughing now?
Thanks. A real pair of idiots -- Dumb and Dumber.
I also think an appropriate punishment would be to lock the would-be pranksters in a room with some of the irate passengers who were delayed or otherwise inconvenienced by the prank, arm the passengers with baseball bats and let them beat the living daylights out of them. I know if some idiot did something like this to delay my flight or cause me trouble, I'd volunteer to use a baseball bat on him.
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