Crime & Safety
'Serial Stowaway' Kept Behind Bars After Latest Arrest
A judge refused to release Marilyn Hartman on Wednesday after she defied an order to stay away from O'Hare International Airport last month.
CHICAGO, IL — A 66-year-old woman with a history as a "serial stowaway" aboard commercial airlines was ordered to remain in jail Wednesday after she continued to defy a judge who told her last month to stay away from Chicago's O'Hare International and Midway airports. During a hearing in Cook County court, a lawyer for Marilyn Hartman argued that her client didn't belong behind bars and should be allowed to stay in a homeless shelter for former inmates, CBS 2 Chicago reports.
Hartman was arrested Jan. 28 at O'Hare for allegedly causing a disturbance at the airport, just three days after she agreed to a judge's order to stay away from the facility. The ban was a stipulation of her release after Hartman allegedly snuck past security and on to a British Airways flight to London on Jan. 15.
Because she wasn't a danger to the public, Hartman's public defender requested Wednesday that her client be electronically monitored and sent to stay at facility run by a nonprofit group that finds housing for homeless former inmates, CBS 2 reports. Hartman had been staying at a nursing facility in Grayslake in Lake County before her arrest in the Jan. 15 incident.
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But Judge Donald Panarese Jr. said he didn't believe the new suggested shelter would stop Hartman from defying his orders again. During a Jan. 25 hearing, Panarese told Hartman three times she was not to step foot in either of Chicago's airports while her case went through the courts, a restriction she promised to adhere to it at the time.
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Along with being order to remain in custody Wednesday, Hartman also was formally indicted on felony charges stemming from last month's inciting incident, according to CBS 2. A psychiatric evaluation already was order for Hartman, who has a long history eluding airport security in order to illegally board commercial airline flights.
Over the past few years, she has faced charges in similar incidents in Chicago and Jacksonville, Florida, as well as the West Coast.
Marilyn Hartman, 66 (Photo via Chicago Police Department)
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