{"id":108698,"date":"2021-01-18T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=108698"},"modified":"2021-01-18T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:33:44","slug":"homeless-man-lives-at-chicago-ohare-airport-for-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/homeless-man-lives-at-chicago-ohare-airport-for-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man lives at Chicago O&apos;Hare airport for THREE MONTHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Homeless man lives at Chicago O&#8217;Hare airport for THREE MONTHS and claims it is because &#8216;he&#8217;s too scared to fly home to LA because of COVID&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Aditya Singh, 36, was living in a secure section of the airport from October 19<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>He was arrested on Saturday after being asked for ID and showing a pass belonging to an airport employee who had reported it missing months prior<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>His bail has been set at $1,000 and he is barred from entering the airport\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A man has spent three months living in a secure section of Chicago&#8217;s O&#8217;Hare International Airport, claiming he was &#8216;too scared to fly home to LA because of Covid&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aditya Singh, 36, was charged with felony criminal trespass to a restricted area of an airport and misdemeanor theft, NBC Chicago\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>Singh is unemployed and lives with roommates in Orange, Los Angeles, according to assistant public defender Courtney Smallwood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police and prosecutors said he arrived at O&#8217;Hare from Los Angeles on October 19 but was afraid to fly home because of coronavirus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Singh, who has a master&#8217;s degree in hospitality and no criminal background,\u00a0said he survived on food from other airport passengers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/01\/18\/09\/38141784-9158891-image-a-1_1610960533802.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Aditya Singh, 36, was arrested on Saturday after being found to have been living in a secure area of Chicago&#8217;s O&#8217;Hare International Airport for three months. Police and prosecutors said Singh (pictured) was too frightened to fly back to LA because of COVID-19<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It shows how things can slip through the cracks,&#8217; transportation expert Joseph Schwieterman told NBC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You get an idea at the airport and can go two weeks without being detected. It&#8217;s really remarkable that in this day and age and security, this occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Singh was eventually caught on Saturday after two United Airlines employees asked him for identification.<\/p>\n<p>The badge he displayed belongs to an operations manager who had reported it missing on October 26 so the employees then called 911.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant state attorney Kathleen Hagerty told Cook County judge Susana Ortiz that Singh had found the badge in the airport, The Guardian reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether Singh left the airport between arriving on October 19 and being arrested last weekend, nor what his reason for traveling to Chicago was.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Department of Aviation, which is responsible for O&#8217;Hare and the city&#8217;s other airports, released a statement saying that the incident &#8216;remains under investigation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/01\/18\/09\/38142414-9158891-image-a-2_1610960698515.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Singh was eventually caught when two United Airlines employees asked him for identification and he produced a badge belonging to an airport employee who had reported it missing in October<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have been able to determine that this gentleman did not pose a security risk to the airport or to the traveling public. We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners on a thorough investigation of this matter,&#8217; it read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A lot of people no doubt look back and are embarrassed &#8211; gate agents &#8211; that probably saw this individual, Schwieterman said, adding that the &#8216;good news&#8217; was that there was &#8216;no real risk to safety here&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It just shows how different parts [of the airport] may not talk to each other, question each other&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz disagreed however. &#8216;Being in a secured part of the airport under a fake ID badge allegedly, based upon the need for airports to be absolutely secure so that people can feel safe to travel, I do find those alleged actions do make him a danger to the community&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Singh&#8217;s bail was set at $1,000 and he is banned from entering the airport should he be able to post bail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9158891\/Homeless-man-lives-Chicago-OHare-airport-THREE-MONTHS-COVID-fears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeless man lives at Chicago O&#8217;Hare airport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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