Ex-flight Attendant's Apartment Burglarized While He is in Court
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Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/20/new.york.slater.burglarized/index.html?hpt=T2[/url]
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While former flight attendant Steven Slater was in court Tuesday on charges stemming from the deployment of an airplane's emergency chute, his apartment was burglarized, according to a news release from the Queens County district attorney. And this allegedly wasn't a random act of burglary. The brother of Slater's partner was the perpetrator, the district attorney said.
"The defendant is accused basically of a crime of opportunity -- brazenly breaking into his brother's apartment in broad daylight when he knew that nobody would be home," Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said of the man charged in the burglary.
Jonathan Rochelle, 39, of Belle Harbor, Queens was awaiting arraignment Wednesday in Queens Criminal Court on second-degree burglary and other charges, according to the district attorney's office.
According to the charges, Rochelle stole a laptop, printer, and microwave. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison.
Slater -- who gained nationwide attention in August when he cursed a passenger over a public address system, deployed the plane's emergency evacuation slide and used it to dramatically exit the JetBlue plane as it sat at John F. Kennedy International Airport -- pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of attempted criminal mischief.
Under a plea deal, he must enter a yearlong mental health program.[/quote]
Karma's a bitch.
Wait..WHAT
They are jailing him for the most awesome exit you can do on a grounded plane?
FASCISM I TELLS YA.
How did he deserve it?
[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;25547149]How did he deserve it?[/QUOTE]
Wigged out and caused a major incident and inconvenienced a few hundred people.
[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;25547149]How did he deserve it?[/QUOTE]
FAR Part 91.11 Prohibition on Interference with crewmembers.
No person may assault, threaten, intimidate, or [b]interfere[/b] with a crewmember in the performance of the crewmember's duties aboard an aircraft being operated.
I'm not a lawyer but I have to know/study FARs as a student pilot and so on. The way I see it he interfered with another crewmember's (in this case the pilot) duties of operating that aircraft.
He stole the microwave.
Can you get a lot for those on the black market or something?
[QUOTE=cheesedelux;25548817]He stole the microwave.
Can you get a lot for those on the black market or something?[/QUOTE]
He stole two beers and released the emergency slide.
[QUOTE=Ridge;25550453]He stole two beers and released the emergency slide.[/QUOTE]
Two beers isn't even enough to make me have to piss.
They're putting him in a mental health program for causing a scene? I don't get it.
Was part of a plea deal, I assume he must be really stressed if that's what he done cause of a pain in the ass passenger.
[QUOTE=Ridge;25550453]He stole two beers and released the emergency slide.[/QUOTE]
The burglars, not the flight attendent
Poor guy
[QUOTE=Ridge;25550453]He stole two beers and released the emergency slide.[/QUOTE]
More like commandeered for a greater purpose.
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