CHICAGO — A girl who climbed over a TSA safety checkpoint wall at O’Hare Worldwide Airport spent a number of hours contained in the secured terminal space earlier than being arrested by Chicago police, based on reviews.
Cecara Baker, 34, stepped atop a desk and chair to climb over a Division of Homeland Safety wall at a TSA checkpoint inside Terminal 1 round 11:12 p.m. on July 23, based on a CPD report.
The intrusion was recorded by airport safety cameras, which confirmed her coming into the jet bridge at gate B7 about two minutes later, the report mentioned. She ran out of the jetway after United Airways workers confronted her.
However she didn’t get arrested till hours later.
CPD’s report mentioned she was discovered “appearing erratically, speaking in circles and appearing out with out provocation” at gate B19 on the morning of July 24. The doc presents conflicting details about when Baker was arrested. CPD’s official information present she was arrested at 9:20 a.m.—about 10 hours after climbing the TSA wall—whereas one other part of the report mentioned she was detained at 7:25 a.m.
Prosecutors charged her with trespassing within the restricted space of an airport and Decide Antara Rivera launched her the following day.
Baker’s alleged intrusion is small potatoes in comparison with Aditya Singh, a California man who allegedly lived inside Terminal 2 at O’Hare for 3 months in the course of the COVID pandemic. He was discovered not responsible of felony prices.
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