Woman arrested after boarding plane
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Posted 9:08AM on Tuesday 2nd April 2002 ( 23 years ago )
MIAMI - A woman was arrested at Miami International Airport after she crashed her pickup truck through a security gate, hopped a 10-foot barbed wire fence into a restricted area and boarded a plane that was being cleaned in a hangar. <br>
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According to FBI statements in the arrest report, crew on the plane described Tanya Polese as ``hysterical'' and said she believed she was fleeing from people who wanted to kill her. <br>
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Polese, 31, was ordered jailed without bond pending a psychological evaluation. <br>
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Police also arrested a man who they said assaulted flight attendants and screamed obscenities on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Miami on Monday night. <br>
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The unidentified man was subdued and the plane landed without further incident, police said. <br>
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He appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs, said airline spokeswoman Mary Frances Fagan. <br>
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Meanwhile, federal investigators have found no terrorist links to an Egyptian man who carried boxcutters on a flight to Miami last week. <br>
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Aly Sabra Galal Abdell, 29, was arrested Friday on immigration charges because he had been deported from New York earlier in the year.
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