Sunday, January 28, 2018

'Serial stowaway' captured at O'Hare days after judge bans her from air terminal


A lady captured not long ago to sneak onto a plane and traveling to London was captured again early Sunday after police recognized her at O'Hare International Airport, experts said.

Marilyn Hartman, 66, was banned by a Cook County judge from entering the air terminal after she was accused not long ago of lawful offense robbery for purportedly sneaking onto a British Airways stream at O'Hare and traveling to the United Kingdom without a $2,400 plane ticket. Hartman, who is infamous for stowing without end on business planes, likewise was accused in that episode of wrongdoing criminal trespassing for entering O'Hare unlawfully.

Notwithstanding requesting Hartman to avoid O'Hare at the Jan. 20 bond hearing, the judge, Stephanie K. Mill operator, expected her to experience a mental assessment and wear a lower leg screen until the point when her case is finished up. Mill operator discharged Hartman all alone recognizance.

Hartman disregarded that exceptional condition and is to show up in bond court Sunday, a few authorities said.

She was captured around 1:30 a.m. Sunday when specialists reacted to a require an aggravation, in which a lady was declining to leave a piece of O'Hare, as per a Chicago Police Department representative.

Officers went to the airplane terminal however couldn't promptly discover the lady. They completed an inquiry of the air terminal and found the lady in Terminal 3, and distinguished her as Hartman, of Grayslake, the police representative said. The lady was captured and accused of criminal trespassing on state arrive and an infringement of a safeguard bond – the terms Judge Miller set.

Amid her Jan. 20 bond hearing, prosecutors said Hartman utilized her hair to conceal her face and stroll past two government Transportation Security Administration pre-check specialists who were checking tickets around 2 p.m. on Jan. 14 at O'Hare.

Subsequent to entering a security checkpoint, she at that point went to a terminal and attempted to get onto a plane to Connecticut, however as she endeavored to "dash around" another traveler in line, she was halted by a flight operator and advised to take a seat, Assistant State's Attorney Maria McCarthy already told the court.

Hartman got onto a van transport to the International Terminal and rested there overnight, prosecutors said.

The following day, Hartman figured out how to move beyond British Airways ticket operators and a Customs and Border Patrol officer, and onto a plane, prosecutors said. She sat in a vacant seat and traveled to London's Heathrow Airport, yet when she demonstrated her archives to a Customs operator, she was distinguished as somebody who entered England without appropriate documentation, McCarthy said.

Hartman was flown back to O'Hare, and Chicago police and different authorities were sitting tight for her when she arrived, prosecutors said. She later confessed to loading up the London-bound flight without purchasing a ticket, McCarthy included.

Hartman's developments through the air terminal were caught on top notch reconnaissance video, as indicated by experts.

The TSA is examining how Hartman could get past security.

That was Hartman's first capture in Chicago since 2016, yet she has a long history of endeavoring to sneak onto planes.

Hartman was given probation when she initially was condemned in the wake of conceding in a February 2016 trespassing charge, yet she was condemned to 364 days in prison half a month later, as indicated by court records.

At the time she was condemned to imprison, Hartman had been inhabiting an emotional wellness office on the Near North Side before abusing the terms of her conviction by leaving the office and going to O'Hare.

Hartman has been confined a few times the nation over for endeavoring to sidestep air terminal security. In a court documenting after her capture in July 2015 at O'Hare on trespass charges, Cook County prosecutors portrayed Hartman as a "serial stowaway." She told NBC-Ch. 5 in December 2015 that she "may have" loaded up planes without a ticket eight times.

Hartman additionally has three wrongdoing feelings for comparative violations in California, McCarthy said.

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