A Russian man who slipped previous Danish airport safety to board a flight to Los Angeles Worldwide Airport with no passport, visa or ticket was discovered responsible of being a stowaway, the U.S. Division of Justice introduced Friday.
After a three-day trial, 46-year-old Sergey Vladimirovich Ochigava was discovered responsible of 1 rely of being a stowaway on an plane.
He faces a most sentence of 5 years in federal jail and is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 5.
Authorities say Ochigava slipped aboard a flight to Los Angeles on Nov. 4 after passing by way of a Copenhagen Airport boarding gate undetected.
He had been in a position to get into the airport terminal with no boarding go a day earlier after tailgating an unsuspecting passenger by way of a safety turnstile, prosecutors mentioned.
In the course of the greater than 12-hour flight aboard Scandinavian Airways Flight 931, Ochigava continually shifted seats, spoke to a number of passengers, requested for 2 in-flight meals and tried to snack on a cabin crew member’s chocolate bar, based on courtroom paperwork filed by federal prosecutors.
Upon arrival at LAX, Customs and Border Safety officers stopped Ochigava at an immigration checkpoint, and had been unable to search out him on the manifest of that flight or some other incoming worldwide flights, courtroom paperwork mentioned.
Ochigava was unable to provide a passport, visa or different journey paperwork that will enable him entrance into the nation, based on the Division of Justice. When questioned, authorities say, he supplied false and deceptive details about his journey to america, together with claiming he had left his passport on the airplane.
Russian and Israeli identification playing cards had been present in his possession when police searched his bag, based on courtroom paperwork.
Extra particulars as to the motivation behind Ochigava’s journey weren’t instantly out there.