Alleged airline stowaway denied bail after judge says he may be risk to flee

L.A. Times ^ | July 1, 2011 | Richard Winton

[La Enchiladita]

A federal magistrate judge Friday denied bail to a 24-year-old year man accused of being a stowaway after he slipped through multiple layers of airport security and hopped a flight from New York to Los Angeles.

Judge Michael Wilner said Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi appeared to be a flight risk after a prosecutor said he believed Noibi would return to Nigeria. The magistrate judge said he was also concerned about the defendant's identity and where he actually lived.

Noibi faces up to five years in prison if convicted of the offense. Authorities say Noibi used an expired boarding pass that did not belong to him -- and also provided only a University of Michigan identification card. Law enforcement sources told The Times they suspect Noibi has used old boarding passes to sneak onto previous flights.

...Noibi's next court date is scheduled for July 18.

[Tucker39]

And, of course, he would need the judge’s bank account number for transferring the repayment money into it./s

[Spitzensparkin1]

He looks like Eddie Amine,Jr.
When are we going to end this madness of letting these Muslims freely flow into our country as “students”?

[Right Wing Assault]

How can he be a stowaway if they look at his papers and let him on? Sounds as if he’s done it before, so I guess he would assume it must be OK with the airlines. They should put themselves in prison for having lousy procedures.

[Right Wing Assault]

They should hire this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atfNL0_KAcs&feature=related

[umgud]

When are we going to end this madness of letting these Muslims freely flow into our country as “students”?

Probably too late or never.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks La Enchiladita.

....a 24-year-old year man... slipped through multiple layers of airport security and hopped a flight from New York to Los Angeles... Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi... a flight risk... would return to Nigeria... concerned about the defendant's identity and where he actually lived... faces up to five years in prison... used an expired boarding pass that did not belong to him... provided only a University of Michigan identification card... they suspect Noibi has used old boarding passes to sneak onto previous flights.

Napolitano has to be fired.

[BfloGuy]

Who knew it was just beeping when it recognized a bar code and not processing the code further!

Hmm. Maybe that's why some people say the TSA's mission is to make people feel safer rather than actually be safer.

[Peter Libra]

It could be the spectre of political correctness that gave this man so many "mulligans". Perhaps certain staff members thought that the effective, but hoary old weapon of crying "racism" might be brought forth.

Just a passing thought though.

[tal hajus]

“feel” is the operative word here.