Story of a "Serial Stowaway" -She did it for 30 flights over nearly 20 years without paying for a ticket, probably best in doing so !
Marilyn Hartman was arrested today, for repeating the story, in an attempt to get into a flight at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, but she has been doing that from 2002.
As per her, the first time she succeed in flying without paying for tickets was to Copenhagen, & second time to Paris.
After mastering this art, she got arrested for the first time on August 2014, when she took the flight from San Jose to Los Angeles as a Stowaway. However the judge was kind enough to let her off with a warning.
But, her art compelled her & she proceeded to do it again, caught again !
This time, in January 2015, Hartman was placed on the TSA tresspass list, & referred as a "serial stowaway" in April 2015, also termed as a "high security risk" in May 2015 & a "habitual stowaway" in July 2015.
In October 2019,she was arrested at O'Hare airport trying to bypass security without a boarding pass.
She blames her bipolar disorder prompter to do such things, whenever she fell into a depressive episode.
At approximately 1.38 p.m, she was tracked & arrested in the vicinity of Terminal 1, O’Hare International Airport.