NJ Airport Trespasser Gets Heavy Fines
August 17, 2010 6:44 AM
Haisong Jiang, 28, is shown being escorted out of the Port Authority Police building at Newark Airport in Newark, N.J., early Jan. 9, 2010. (Joe Epstein/AP)
NEWARK, N.J. (CBS 2) — Remember the Rutgers student who ducked around a security checkpoint at Newark Liberty Airport in January and kissed his girlfriend? Turns out it was a very expensive kiss.
Haisong Jiang was arrested on January 8, days after the security breach that led to a busy terminal being shut down for hours, delaying or canceling about 200 flights around the world.
Jiang pleaded guilty to “defiant trespass” and was fined $3,000 on top of a $500 fine imposed by a Newark judge.
His lawyer, Eric Bruce, defended him as “simply a lovesick man who made a mistake.”
