Man duct-taped to airplane seat after assaulting, groping flight attendants gets jail time

The Ohio man seen duct-taped right into a seat on a Miami-bound flight final summer time after assaulting and groping flight attendants has been sentenced to about two months of jail time. 

Maxwell Berry, 23, of Norwalk, Ohio, was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in jail, the New York Occasions reported. He was additionally fined $2,500 and ordered to pay greater than $1,500 in restitution. 

This comes after Berry pleaded responsible in February to 3 counts of assault inside maritime and territorial jurisdiction in U.S. District Court docket for the Southern District of Florida. The fees might have warranted a most sentence of a yr and a half in jail and fines of as a lot as $15,000.   

FRONTER AIRLINES PASSENGER SEEN TAPED TO SEAT AFTER ALLEGEDLY TARGETING FLIGHT ATTENDANTS 

Court docket paperwork alleged Berry ordered a 3rd alcoholic beverage on a Frontier Airways flight from Philadelphia to Miami on July 31, 2021, and brushed the drink up towards the bottom of a feminine flight attendant who informed him to not contact her. 

He later spilled a drink on his shirt and went to the toilet earlier than popping out towards shirtless. 

A flight attendant tried to see him again to his seat and assist him get a shirt out of his carry-on, however he proceeded to wander across the aircraft for quarter-hour, approaching a second feminine flight attendant and groping her breasts. 

Berry later punched a male flight attendant, who together with a passenger then held down the 22-year-old and duct taped him into the seat. A number of movies of the incident went viral on social media. 

Whereas taped down, Berry shouted expletives and yelled that his dad and mom had been price $2 million, prompting jeers from different passengers to duct tape his mouth shut, and Berry was quickly gagged. 

“I’m White. I’m sorry – I can’t change that,” he additionally reportedly yelled.

Berry was arrested at Miami Worldwide Airport. The airline crew was initially positioned on paid go away. 

Berry’s protection lawyer had argued towards jail time, writing in court docket paperwork that his shopper was an excellent man who dedicated an unplanned, unhealthy act and great media consideration of the “aberration” had broken his repute and value the school graduate a number of job alternatives within the finance world, ABC Information reported.