As we reported many months ago in a post, a Florida man, Yechezkel Wells acknowledged that he made the hoax threat at Long Beach Airport to try to keep a Aug. 26 evening flight to Fort Lauderdale from leaving before he could board. He admitted making a 911 call from an airport pay phone sometime after 9:10 p.m., after a JetBlue supervisor refused to issue him a boarding pass for Flight 243 because he was late and pleaded guilty to a felony charge of conveying false information of a threat against an airplane.
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He was sentenced today to six months of home detention with electronic monitoring and fined $1000. Even his own lawyer described the act as one of gross stupidity.
