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JFK breach is 2nd this month at NYC-area airport JFK security breach is 2nd this month at NYC-area airport that led to terminal being evacuated By CRISTIAN SALAZAR, Associated Press Last updated: 6:30 a.m., Sunday, January 17, 2010
NEW YORK -- A busy terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport was evacuated after a man opened a restricted door and set off an alarm, authorities said, making it the second known security breach at a New York-area airport this month. The breach delayed dozens of flights and caused headaches for hundreds of travelers who had to exit the terminal and wait for hours as police swept through the building. The passengers at JFK were then shepherded through additional screening. The man, Jules Paul Bouloute, is of Haitian descent but lives in Brooklyn, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport. He was arrested on a charge of criminal trespass.
Bouloute was in Haiti during Tuesday's earthquake but took a flight on Saturday from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to Orlando, Fla., where he caught a connecting flight to New York City, Coleman said...........>>>>.............>>>>............Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=889753#ixzz0csDZwlVb
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