He spent three months at the airport for fear of flying during the pandemic

Aditya Singh, a 36-year-old man, fHe was arrested on January 16 at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, after living for three months in a security zone of that enclosure without attracting the attention of the authorities.

The detainee, a California resident, arrived on a flight from Los Angeles last October 19, did not return home for fear of flying during the pandemic and he remained in a restricted access area because he had an airport identification plate that an employee lost.

So far it is not clear what brought Singh to Chicago and if he has any ties to the area, but he does know that he was fed thanks to the food that other passengers gavereported the newspaper Chicago Tribune.

The situation it was discovered thanks to two employees of the United Airlines company, They asked him to identify himself, realized that the document did not belong to him and called the police.

Courtney Smallwood, abogada de Singh, acknowledged that the circumstances of the case were unusual, but stressed that the crimes of which his client is accused are non-violent, stressed that he has no criminal record and recalled that he has been unemployed for some time.

Judge Susana Ortiz found the events “quite shocking” due to the “prolonged period of time” in which they occurred, so she estimated that the suspect, accused of trespassing in a restricted area and petty theft, it was “a danger to the community.”

Ortiz set a bond of $ 1,000 and, if Aditya Singh is able to pay that amount, he will not be able to set foot at O’Hare airport again before appearing for his trial on January 27, published RT.

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