MARILYN HARTMAN doesn’t let a little thing like airport security get in the way of her travel plans.
Dubbed the “Serial Stowaway,” Hartman has been arrested several times for attempting to sneak onto flights across the country or loitering at airports without a ticket. This time, the 63-year-old Californian allegedly got past security and took a flight from Minnesota to Jacksonville, Florida, and checked into someone else’s hotel room, Fox News reported.
She was charged with impersonation, defrauding an innkeeper, and trespassing, Nassau County Sheriff’s deputies said Monday.
Investigators say Hartman boarded a flight in Minneapolis-St. Paul to Jacksonville on Sunday without buying a ticket. When she landed, she allegedly boarded a shuttle bus to the swank Omni Amelia Island Plantation Hotel, where she fibbed her way into a US$300 villa.
The jig was up hours later when the real guest arrived, but Hartman disappeared when hotel staff tried to contact her, according to USA Today. Police found her Monday, reportedly in a ground-floor room that was under renovation.
At this point, Hartman is a skilled stowaway.
Cops say she violated her probation terms that were handed down in August after she tried four times in one day to sneak onboard a flight from San Jose to Los Angeles. She succeeded on the fourth try by sneaking through security checkpoints with a family.(SD-Agencies)
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