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.
男子闯警戒区和女友吻别 致机场关闭数小时
周四(7日)公布的一段视频显示，上周日在美国新泽西州的纽瓦克机场，一男子溜入警戒区与一名女性吻别，导致机场被关闭数小时，数以千计的乘客行程延误。
视频显示，一名联邦安全官员暂时离开岗位后不久，一名男子走到附近，闯入警戒区。
从该视频的较早阶段可以看到，美国交通安全局(TSA)的那名官员稍早曾让该男子离开警戒线。但这名工作人员后来离开了自己的办公桌，向机场大厅走去。
然后该男子从警戒线下方钻进去，与一名已经通过安检的女乘客会合，看起来好像是与她吻别。之后，这一男一女手拉手走出屏幕的显示范围。这两人的身份迄今依然不明。
TSA的那名工作人员不久回到自己的岗位。
在纽瓦克自由国际机场发生的这起事件震动了安全官员和航空业，因为圣诞节炸机未遂案在不久前刚刚发生。
公布这则视频的新泽西州参议员Frank Lautenberg在声明中说：“港口管理局(负责管理机场的机构)制作这个录像花了这么长时间，是让人无法接受的。”
此事导致纽瓦克机场关闭数小时，数以千计的乘客不得不再次接受安检。
