On Monday night, Ms. Dali was in custody in Buffalo, Barbara Burns, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Western District of New York, said. Ms. Dali is scheduled to appear in court there on Tuesday afternoon before Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer and then to be returned to custody in Brooklyn, Ms. Burns said.
Exploiting Security Weaknesses
To get to Paris last month, Ms. Dali exploited weaknesses in the security system at Kennedy during the busiest period of the year for air travel by blending in with crowds of boarding travelers, prosecutors in Brooklyn said. She slipped past a checkpoint by mixing in with the flight crew of a Spanish airline and then walked, undetected by Delta employees, onto a fully booked plane, they said. During the seven-hour flight, Ms. Dali tried to avoid notice by ducking into the aircraft’s bathrooms.
Arrest and Return
Delta returned Ms. Dali to Kennedy after she had spent about a week in the custody of French authorities. She was arrested there by F.B.I. agents.
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