Suspect in JFK Airport Security Breach Arrested

from foxnews.com:

"NEW YORK — Police say a man of Haitian descent who left the island nation after the devastating earthquake caused a security breach at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport by opening a restricted door.

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Steve Coleman says 57-year-old Jules Paul Bouloute was arrested Saturday on a charge of criminal trespass.

He says Bouloute lives in Brooklyn but was in Haiti during Tuesday's earthquake. The man took a flight from the Dominican Republic to Orlando, Fla., before connecting on a flight to New York.

Coleman says it's unclear how or when Bouloute got from Haiti to the Dominican Republic.

Bouloute's phone number is unlisted.

The security breach delayed dozens of flights and caused headaches for hundreds of travelers who had to exit the terminal and get re-screened.

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Steve Coleman said security cameras recorded the incident just before 3:30 p.m.

Judy Erickson, a hairdresser who was waiting to get on a flight to Los Angeles, said it was shocking that the passenger was able to get through a restricted door.

"All those doors that you're not supposed to go through should have a guard or security," she said.

Terminal 8 handles both domestic and international flights for American Airlines.

A spokesman for the airline, Charley Wilson, said some flights were being delayed, and some planes were waiting on the tarmac for permission to proceed to their gates. He said the airline had estimated flights would be delayed two to three hours.

Security officials began to let passengers back in around 6 p.m. but weren't sure how long it would take for everyone to pass through security checkpoints.

Inside the terminal, hundreds of people waited in a long line outside the security gate. Dozens of people sat on the floor with their bags.

"The rest of us are made to suffer," said Meganne Harvey, 22, who was trying to fly home to San Diego after a trip to Paris.

The incident is the third evacuation in five months at airports that serve New York City.

A man was charged last week with breaching security at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Jan. 3. Flights were grounded for hours and passengers were re-screened while air safety officials searched for him.

A Rutgers University graduate student from China, Haisong Jiang, 28, was charged with trespassing in that incident. His arraignment is set for Jan. 28 in Newark.

In August, a terminal at LaGuardia airport was evacuated after police tackled a disturbed man who was carrying a device that looked like a bomb but turned out to be harmless."