#8 - Vickie Meyers
Missouri woman Vickie Meyers was flying home, out of Sky Harbor Airport, on December the 27th of
2021, after spending Christmas in Phoenix, Arizona. The 53-year-old was reportedly
intoxicated at the time and, as a result, became confused about the scheduled departure time
for her Spirit Airlines plane. In her disoriented state, Meyers missed her flight’s final boarding
call. After realizing her mistake, the Creve Coeur resident reportedly made a frantic dash for her
gate. Once she got there, she discovered that the door had been closed and all of the passengers
had already boarded the plane. Meyers then tried entering a security passcode into the keypad on
the door, which ultimately proved unsuccessful. In a desperate last-ditch ploy to catch her flight,
the woman reportedly barged through an emergency door and ran down a flight of
stairs onto the tarmac. Meyers fruitlessly pleaded with the grounds crew to allow her
onto the plane before police arrived at the scene and took her back to the terminal,
where she was arrested. She was then booked into the Maricopa County Jail and charged with felony
trespassing. A court hearing for the case was scheduled to take place in January of 2022.
#7 - The Murder of Juan Anzaldo Shortly before 9:30 pm, on November the 19th
of 2021, Southwest Airlines employee Juan Anzaldo was walking to his car, after completing his shift
at the El Paso International Airport, in Texas. Once he’d arrived at his vehicle, the 49-year-old
reportedly noticed that one of his tires had been slashed and then phoned a co-worker to ask for
assistance. During the call, Anzaldo indicated to his colleague that he believed the damage
to his car had been caused by his girlfriend’s husband, 50-year-old Bernard Walter Christmann.
The co-worker later told investigators that he subsequently heard Anzaldo arguing with another
man before loudly crying out for help. The call was then cut off, prompting Anzaldo’s associate
and a nearby witness to rush to his aid in the employee parking lot. Upon their arrival, they
noticed a man wearing a dark hoodie fleeing the scene. One of the witnesses stayed with Anzaldo,
who’d been left critically injured by an altercation with the male suspect. The
other reportedly pursued the fleeing man, who eventually got away in a gray pickup truck.
Anzaldo passed away from blunt force trauma to the head as a result of the attack. During the ensuing
investigation, the police were able to positively identify Christmann as Anzaldo’s assailant,
and he was consequently arrested and charged with murder. It later emerged that the victim had been
having an affair with the suspect’s wife for more than a year prior to the incident. Christmann’s
bail was reportedly set at $1.25 million. #6 - The Miami Airport Brawl
On April the 25th of 2021, a brawl broke out at an American Airlines terminal in the Miami
International Airport. A video recording of the fight was uploaded to social media by Miami-based
documentary filmmaker Billy Corben. The footage, which went viral following the incident, showed
several travelers exchanging vicious blows inside Terminal D, near gate D-12. A witness would later
tell investigators that the melee had started after an employee stationed at the American
Airlines counter notified a group of 4 men that there were only 3 standby seats available for
their flight to Chicago, Illinois. The men then began fighting with at least 3 others due to what
a police report described as “undetermined reasons”. The warring groups were captured
on video repeatedly punching and kicking each other as bystanders pleaded with them to stop.
The fight was eventually broken up by witnesses, at which point the group of 4 men reportedly fled
the area. After law enforcement officials arrived at the scene, they located one of the suspects,
identified as Jameel Tremain Decquir, aged 20, at a nearby gate and placed him under arrest.
The police reported that an individual who’d been injured during the altercation was treated by
Fire Rescue crews at the scene, but ultimately decided that they didn’t want to press charges
against their attackers. #5 - Karleen Gearing
Las Vegas police officers made their way to McCarran International Airport, on September the
28th of 2021, after receiving a call about of an unruly traveler. According to the resulting arrest
report, the responding officers came upon Karleen Gearing, aged 21, shouting at employees at a
Southwest Airlines counter. An airport supervisor later told the authorities that the young woman
had reportedly been denied boarding because of her belligerent behavior and wasn’t allowed to rebook
her flight. The officers attempted to explain the matter to Gearing and deescalate the situation
but she then shifted her ire towards them. She allegedly started fighting with the officers,
as they were trying to take her into custody, and even spat on them as they attempted to handcuff
her. Gearing was then held down and the officers placed a mask over her mouth to prevent her from
spitting on them again. The young woman reportedly managed to slip her cuffs multiple times,
prompting the police to switch to plastic flex straps to more securely restrain her. Gearing
was medically cleared by an ambulance before being booked into Clark County Detention Center
on charges of battery on a protected person, resisting a public officer,
and violating airport rules and regulations. #4 - Adreonna Adair and Destiny James
Two women were seen beating up an employee at Harry Reid International Airport, in Las Vegas,
Nevada, on the afternoon of January the 6th of 2022. The suspects were later named as 26-year-old
Adreonna Adair and Destiny James, aged 29. According to eyewitness testimony,
the women assaulted a Spirit Airlines employee in the baggage claim area of the airport for
reasons not immediately reported in the incident’s aftermath. Upon the arrival of law enforcement,
Adair and James allegedly attempted to leave the scene in defiance of the officer’s insistence
that they stand by while the situation was being investigated. The officer stopped them and then
reportedly told the women to wait near the baggage carousel. When the suspects refused to comply once
again, the officer called for backup and the women were taken into custody. Police later learned that
the unidentified victim of the women’s attack was taken to a hospital with lacerations to her
eye. Adair and James were consequently charged with resisting a public officer and violation
of airport conduct. They were scheduled to appear in court on March the 3rd of 2022.
#3 - Chloe Mrozak On August the 23rd of 2021, Illinois
woman Chloe Mrozak arrived in Oahu, Hawaii, via a Southwest Airlines flight. In order to circumvent
the state’s mandatory 10-day quarantine for unvaccinated travelers, the 24-year-old
presented a COVID-19 vaccination card to a screener at the Daniel K. Inouye International
Airport. Mrozak quickly became the target of an investigation by the Hawaii Safe Travels Program,
which identified a number of suspicious details on the young woman’s vaccination card that suggested
it might have been falsified. Tom George, a reporter for KITV4 ABC in Hawaii, posted a picture
of Mrozak’s card on Twitter and indicated it contained a number of noticeable spelling errors,
including the words “Moderna”, “Delaware”, and “Maryland”. Safe Travels administrators
subsequently contacted the hotel where Mrozak claimed to be staying, but employees notified them
that there were no reservations under the young woman’s name. It was also discovered
that Delaware officials had no records of a “Chloe Mrozak” getting vaccinated in the state.
The Quarantine Compliance Check team then set out to locate the suspect, which they successfully
did on August the 28th when she came back to the airport for her return flight to Illinois.
Mrozak was arrested in front of the Southwest Airlines counter and charged with falsifying
vaccination documents. She was transported to The Queen’s Health Care Center for a COVID screening
before being booked at the Honolulu police station. Her bail was reportedly set at $2,000.
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#2 - The Atlanta Accidental Gun Discharge A bag was searched by security officials at the
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, on November the 20th of 2021, after an X-ray
machine had identified a prohibited item inside of it. TSA agents reportedly told the passenger not
to touch their property while they carried out the inspection. As the officer opened the bag,
however, the traveler lunged forward and reached inside to grab the firearm that had been flagged
by security. During the ensuing struggle with the agents, the gun was accidentally discharged,
prompting the passenger to flee the airport. The inadvertent gunshot caused a panic among other
nearby travelers, many of whom were captured on video screaming and running away from the area
where the shot had been fired. The TSA posted an update on the situation to their social
media accounts in which they clarified that there was no active shooter on the premises,
as had been rumored following the onset of mass hysteria in the airport. Authorities implemented
a ground stop at the airport in order to allow Atlanta Police to investigate the incident
further. It was ultimately determined that 3 individuals had sustained non-fatal injuries,
as a result of the stampede of fleeing passengers, but no one was wounded by the gunshot itself.
#1 - The Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting At about 12:53 pm, on January the 6th of 2017,
gunfire erupted near the baggage claim in Terminal 2 at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood
International Airport, in Broward County, Florida. The ensuing frenzy of travelers attempting to flee
the scene as gunshots rang out was captured on video. It later emerged that false reports of
additional gunshots in other areas of the airport had sparked a panic in adjacent terminals as well.
The shots reportedly continued for 70 to 80 seconds, after which the gunman, identified
as 31-year-old Esteban Santiago-Ruiz, laid down on the floor, having run out of ammunition. Broward
County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the scene and arrested Santiago-Ruiz without further incident.
In the wake of the shooting, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop notice, which
closed the airport to all but emergency flights. It was reported that a total of 5 people had been
fatally shot and another 6 suffered non-lethal gunshot wounds. Sheriff Scott Israel stated that
between 30 and 40 other travelers were injured in the consequent chaos. In his interviews with
investigators, Santiago-Ruiz allegedly claimed that he’d been under “government mind control”
and had been “hearing voices” leading up to the shooting. While in custody, Santiago-Ruiz was
diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. After he was prescribed psychotropic
medication, he was deemed legally competent to stand trial. In May of 2018, Santiago-Ruiz agreed
to a plea deal with prosecutors that sentenced him to life in prison in lieu of the death penalty.
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