Man Arrested in Newark Airport Security Breach
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Haisong Jiang, 28, of Piscataway was taken into custody at Friday night at his home, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said. He was questioned at the airport by Port Authority police, who arrested him, and released shortly after midnight.
The Port Authority said in a statement that Jiang will be charged with defiant trespass, and that the charge was determined in coordination with the Essex County prosecutor and federal officials, though it's not a federal charge. A spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration referred all questions to the Port Authority.
Jiang is due to appear in Newark municipal court next week, according to Paul Loriquet of the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.
It was not immediately clear whether Jiang has retained a lawyer.
Jiang, who is Chinese, is a doctoral student in a joint molecular biosciences program at Rutgers University, one of his roommates said early Saturday. He said Jiang was born in Jiangxi, China, and has been in the U.S. since 2004.
男子闖警戒區和女友吻別 致機場關閉數小時
周四(7日)公布的一段視頻顯示，上周日在美國新澤西州的紐瓦克機場，一男子溜入警戒區與一名女性吻別，導致機場被關閉數小時，數以千計的乘客行程延誤。
視頻顯示，一名聯邦安全官員暫時離開崗位後不久，一名男子走到附近，闖入警戒區。
從該視頻的較早階段可以看到，美國交通安全局(TSA)的那名官員稍早曾讓該男子離開警戒線。但這名工作人員後來離開了自己的辦公桌，向機場大廳走去。
然後該男子從警戒線下方鑽進去，與一名已經通過安檢的女乘客會合，看起來好像是與她吻別。之後，這一男一女手拉手走出屏幕的顯示範圍。這兩人的身份迄今依然不明。
TSA的那名工作人員不久回到自己的崗位。
在紐瓦克自由國際機場發生的這起事件震動了安全官員和航空業，因為聖誕節炸機未遂案在不久前剛剛發生。
公布這則視頻的新澤西州參議員Frank Lautenberg在聲明中說：「港口管理局(負責管理機場的機構)製作這個錄影花了這麼長時間，是讓人無法接受的。」
此事導致紐瓦克機場關閉數小時，數以千計的乘客不得不再次接受安檢。
