Svetlana Dali: Woman who stowed away on flight from New York to Paris is indicted

Source: Associated Press

Woman who stowed away on flight from New York to Paris is indicted

Updated 5:19 PM EST, January 13, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — A Russian woman who was arrested after she stowed away on a flight from New York to Paris was indicted Monday by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn.

Svetlana Dali, 57, was indicted on a stowaway charge that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

She was arrested in early December after she was returned to the United States a week after she was found aboard a Nov. 26 Delta Air Lines flight as it headed from JFK International Airport in New York to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.

After she was returned to the United States, she was arrested again on Dec. 16 in Buffalo after authorities said she tried to enter Canada after cutting off a GPS monitoring device that was put on in New York when she was freed on bail. Since the second arrest, she has been held at the federal Brooklyn Detention Center.

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