Posted on 03/05/2007 6:13:53 PM PST by buccaneer81
Off-Duty NWA Worker Charged With Assault On Flight Image
Heather Brown Reporting
(WCCO) Minneapolis An off-duty Northwest Airlines employee was arrested after a woman on a flight from Seattle complained that the man had ejaculated on her.
The FBI identified the man as Samuel Oscar Gonzalez, 20, of Lakewood, Wash. He was charged in federal court with simple assault, a misdemeanor.
It happened on the redeye Monday morning from Seattle to Minneapolis. The woman was headed back to college.
Near the end of the flight, the FBI said Gonzalez sat next to the woman as she was trying to sleep. He touched her, which she described as spooning, lifted her shirt and then got up and left. Court documents said she felt a warm fluid on her back, clothes and seat after he walked away. She told the officers he had ejaculated on her.
The woman told the flight attendants about the incident. They moved her to another seat and called police from the air. The crew also moved the man to a seat near the front of the plane until the end of the flight.
Northwest Airlines Corp. said the flight crew asked that police meet the flight from Seattle when it arrived early Monday in Minneapolis, and that's where officers arrested Gonzalez.
The victim told her boyfriend she was told Gonzalez is a Northwest employee.
"I know she was really upset, just kind of confused about what's going on, what's happening," said the victim's boyfriend, Mark, who asked to be identified only by his first name.
Northwest would not comment on what Gonzalez does for the airline, but said he was not working at the time.
They released a statement that said, “The NWA employee has been suspended pending a review of the incident. Northwest is cooperating fully with law enforcement authorities on this matter."
The FBI said Gonzalez was detained after his initial appearance in federal court on Monday. He could face up to six months in jail.
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must be the other thread was pulled...
Human disgust at its ugliest.
"Northwest would not comment on what Gonzalez does for the airline,"
Obviously not into software.
Beyond gross.
Was it?
I haven't checked.
I cannot for the life of me understand why the woman let the perp do this.
I mean, she coulda yelled, at the VERY least.
Who does he think he is? Bill Clinton?
No salty nuts?
NWA-the same airline where a Flight Attendant put xanax in a baby's milk bottle..
Gee, when I got bumped from a NWA flight, all they did to me was put me up in a really ugly hotel at the Detroit aiport with the worst restaurant in the world and with a really, really bad karaoke bar. Just pathetic.
The food, service and decor of the restaurant was so hilariously bad, the the next morning before I left, I came down and took pictures of the place as a nightmare memory to show to the folks and friends back home.
No matter how much you might hate Starbucks, it was a pleasure to find them at the airport the next morning compared to the "Surfing Grease" cafe at the Motel Hell.
My guess is assign him to fly coach to get more people to upgrade to first class.
Agree -- per my understanding of spooning, it takes two and is consentual. "Lifted my shirt" sounds consentual too. However, maybe she was asleep and dreaming of her boyfriend.
Anybody wondering whether this guy will get off?....
Maybe she was half asleep, and maybe she was stunned/scared thinking she was imagining what was happening?
People end up brushed up against each other on flights while sleeping, with tiny seats; it's a fact of flying. The perv then ejaculated on her, and she reported it.
Do 20 year olds use the term "spooning" these days? That was a term my grandmother's generation would use.
He already did. But you were setting that up on purpose, right?
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