Woman caught stowing away on Paris flight tries to sneak into Canada
globalnews.caSvetlana Dali certainly is tenacious.The alleged Delta Air Lines stowaway is, once again, making headlines — this time for trying to sneak her way into Canada, reportedly cutting off her ankle monitor before boarding a Greyhound bus to the Great White North.Dali, a 57-year-old Russian national, was taken into custody in Paris late last month after she snuck onto a Delta Air Lines flight at New York’s JFK International Airport without a boarding pass on Nov. 26 and flew all the way to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, apparently concealing herself by spending long periods of time in the plane’s multiple bathrooms.She was detained when authorities discovered she didn’t have a valid visa to enter the country, French National Police said at the time.After two unsuccessful attempts to deport her back to the U.S.
— postponed after she “started screaming” and kicking up a fuss once aboard the departing planes — she was finally brought back to American soil on Dec. 4 and arrested by the FBI.Despite a Dec.
6 court hearing that ordered her not to leave Philadelphia and being outfitted with an ankle monitor until her trial, Dali was not deterred.She was arrested in Buffalo, N.Y., on Monday, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Western District of New York confirmed.Before her latest arrest, she allegedly cut off her monitor and made her way to upstate New York, where she rode a bus toward the Canadian border, the New York Times reported, citing two law enforcement officials.
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