Man Who Got Onto United Flight Without Boarding Pass Thought It Was Cheap, Not Fake, Attorney Says

Court documents allege Abdulrahman Oriyomi was able to get through TSA and sneak into a United plane with a fake boarding pass.

The man accused of going through a TSA checkpoint with a fake boarding pass and getting on a United Airlines plane at Houston’s Bush airport last month appeared before a judge on Monday.

The attorney for 25-year-old suspect Abdulrahman Oriyomi told ABC13 it was essentially a misunderstanding, saying his client thought he was getting a cheap airline ticket, not a fake one.

During Oriyomi’s court hearing Monday morning, the judge kept his bond at $15,000, and his attorney says he does plan to bond out.

Read the rest of the story at ABC7.

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