Maine
British men sentenced for drunken interference aboard flight diverted to Maine
Two males from England have been sentenced in federal court docket for expenses associated to interfering with the crew of a flight that needed to be diverted from its vacation spot.
2 ENGLISH MEN PLEAD GUILTY TO INTERFERING WITH FLIGHT CREW, CAUSING PLANE TO BE DIVERTED TO MAINE
The passengers disrupted a flight from Mexico to England, inflicting it to make an unplanned touchdown on Jan. 2 in Bangor, Maine, prosecutors mentioned. They pleaded responsible in February to expenses of interference with a flight crew and assault.
Two Englishmen have been sentenced to time served Wednesday for belligerent, aggressive habits aboard a flight dwelling from Mexico that prompted the aircraft’s diversion to Bangor, Maine.
A federal choose sentenced Anthony Joseph James Kirby, 36, and Damien Jake Murphy, 36, to time served on Tuesday. The lads have been in custody since their January arrest and have been additionally ordered to pay greater than $26,000 in restitution.
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Calls have been made to attorneys for the 2 males.
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Court docket data state that the boys turned upset after being advised they’d not be served any extra alcohol in the course of the flight. They then took a bottle of alcohol from their baggage and continued consuming, and have become more and more intoxicated and belligerent, prosecutors mentioned.