SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — Police have arrested a man who commandeered an airport work truck at Mineta San Jose International Airport.
Airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes told KCBS that, at approximately 10:15 a.m. Sunday, an unidentified man was spotted on a ramp on the west side of the airport where the corporate aviation facility is located. Airport staff immediately made contact with the man, took him into the corporate building and called police, Barnes said.
Moments later, the man got up and fled out the front door of the building where he encountered a staff member and asked for a ride to one of the commercial terminals. The employee refused and the suspect then jumped into an airport vehicle and drove off in it toward Terminal B.
San Jose police found the man inside a public area of a terminal, and arrested him there.
Barnes says it’s unclear just how the man made it past security and onto the tarmac, or how he was able to commandeer the airport vehicle.
She said that at no point was passenger or employee safety compromised and that a full investigation is now underway.
Security at the airport has been called into question in recent months.
In April, a 15-year-old boy managed to climb a security fence, climb into the wheel well of a passenger jet, and survive a flight to Hawaii. Then, last August, a woman was able to board a flight to Los Angeles without a ticket.
- Source: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
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