SEATTLE, Wash. — A woman was arrested for the second time in a week at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, days after she was accused of sneaking past security and boarding a Delta Air Lines flight without a ticket.
According to the Port of Seattle Police, the second arrest happened on Dec. 27 when someone called to report a suspicious woman near Checkpoint 2.
Officers say they recognized the woman because they’d arrested her on Christmas Eve.
When asked why she was back at the airport, she reportedly told police she was picking her sister up but “did not have a ticket and could not list a real airline for the flight her sister was on,” according to documents obtained by KIRO 7.
Officers tried to call a phone number that the woman provided for her sister, but it wasn’t a working number.
According to the documents, officers then showed the woman the security footage they had of her sneaking past the portion of security where TSA asks for a boarding pass and identification. She reportedly confirmed it was her, but that she was “already arrested for that.”
Because the woman once again did not have a ticket while inside the airport, she did not list a real airline or have any proof she was picking up her sister, officers say they arrested her.
The arrest comes three days after the initial one, where documents state the woman was caught in another passenger’s seat on a full flight headed to Honolulu.
You can read more about the Christmas Eve arrest here.
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