Model Naomi Campbell Charged In London Airport Assault

The model Naomi Campbell has been charged with assaulting two police officers during an incident that happened at Heathrow Airport on April 3rd. She was charged when she reported to Heathrow police station to answer bail. She faces three counts of assaulting a constable, two counts of using threatening abusive words or behavior towards the cabin crew, and one count of disorderly conduct. The assault was against two officers. She has been ordered to appear at a west London magistrates’ court on June 20^th and she could possibly receive six months in prison and/or a fine of up to $10,000.

On April 3^rd, Campbell was on a British Airways plane ready to go to Los Angeles when she got into a dispute over her luggage. She was removed from the plane and held for eight hours at the airport police station before she was released on bail.

Doctor Causes Bomb Threat

It is reported that a doctor in Seattle, Washington who had missed his flight with Northwest Airlines called the police three times to tell the operators that there was a bomb on the plane, which forced the plane’s return to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

The doctor went to court on Thursday, July 26th, and was charged with making a false threat against an aircraft. He admitted that he used a payphone at the airport to call 911 emergency services three times after he arrived at the gate too late to board the plane. After his first call of claiming there was a bomb on the plane, he looked outside and noticed that the call had no effect so he made a second and third call.

The doctor claimed that he thought the calls would make the airline ground the plane for a couple of hours because bomb threats are taken seriously. He also claimed that he had not been taking his antidepressant medication.

When the plane was brought back, it was grounded for several hours while the authorities determined the threat to be false. Northwest Airlines estimated that they lost $70,000 in fuel, gate fees, and other expenses.

Snakes On a Plane

It is reported in Cairo, Egypt that a man was stopped at the airport just before he tried to board a plane heading to Saudi-Arabia. He had carry-on bags that were filled with live snakes and a few baby crocodiles and chameleons.

Airport security became suspicious of the man when the X-ray machine at the departure gate gave odd readings. Police opened the bags and found a large number of reptiles, including a cobra, trying to escape. The animals were confiscated and given to the Cairo zoo and the man was allowed to board his flight.

Transporting live reptiles out of the country is illegal in Egypt, but the man said he wasn't aware of that and the snakes, crocodiles,and chameleons were needed by a Saudi-Arabia university for scientific experiments.

Back in May another Saudi-Arabian man was caught in the Cairo airport trying to transport 700 live snakes in his luggage. He told the authorities that snakes were often kept by store keepers in glass jars in Saudi-Arabia or used as pets.