The woman who was able to breach security at San Jose International Airport On Aug. 4, board a Southwest Airlines flight and fly to Los Angeles before being arrested, was sentenced to six months in jail Wednesday for violation of her probation.
Marilyn Jean Hartman, 62, had previously tried to board flights without a ticket and was placed on two years' probation last week for the San Jose incident and told to stay away from Los Angeles International Airport.
But she was spotted inside a terminal at LAX without a ticket, and a judge sentenced her to 177 days in jail for violating the terms of her probation.
Earlier this month, Hartman was only noticed after the plane from San Jose landed at LAX and flight attendants did a head count for anybody who was remaining on the aircraft that continued on to Phoenix. When flight attendants realized there was one more passenger than what was listed on the manifest, they asked everyone to show their boarding pass. Hartman could not produce hers and was taken off the plane and arrested.
The incident came just four months after a teenager was able to breach security by climbing over a fence and onto the tarmac, stowing away in the wheel well of a plane headed to Hawaii. Miraculously, he survived the 5 ½ hour flight to Maui.
But in this instance, Hartman was a known stowaway who was already placed on probation in February for trying to board three separate flights to Hawaii on three different days at San Francisco International. On one of those attempts, she somehow made it all the way to plane and was sitting in a ticketed passenger's seat. When she couldn't produce a boarding pass, she was removed from the flight before takeoff and arrested.
Though San Jose International at the time said, "The Airport's security systems and processes were not a factor in this incident and public safety was never compromised," adjustments were made. According to The Hill, the TSA said "the agency has initiated minor modifications to the layout of the document checking area to prevent another incident like this one."
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