A woman who stowed away on a Delta flight from New York City to Paris last month has been apprehended again — this time while trying to sneak into Canada.
Svetlana Dali, 57, cut her ankle bracelet sometime Sunday and was stopped Monday on a Greyhound bus at the border in Buffalo when she could not show a passport, a source told the Daily News.
She could be charged with bail jumping and face up to five years in federal prison, according to CNN.
Dali, a Russian national and permanent U.S. resident, was previously charged with one count of being a stowaway on a vessel or aircraft without consent — which also carries a possible five-year-sentence — after hiding on a Paris-bound flight from JFK on Nov. 26. At that time, she slipped through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint, and the airline’s boarding gate check, to get onto Delta Flight 264 to Charles de Gaulle Airport.
According to the original criminal complaint, she hid among the crew from Air Europa and was screened by TSA. She then boarded the flight while the airline’s agents were distracted helping other passengers, the feds say.
Dali was originally set to return to the U.S. on Nov. 30 but she became unruly and started screaming, causing her return trip to be rescheduled. She was finally returned to the U.S. this month and arrested.
Dali was released on a recognizance bond Dec. 6 with mandatory GPS monitoring and a curfew. She had also been ordered to stay out of airports, not leave the city of Philadelphia — except to meet her lawyer, attend court or other pre-trial services in New York — surrender travel documents, and receive mental health treatment.
Dali’s attorney, Michael Schneider, had argued she was not a flight risk.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn declined to comment.
