The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press
March 05, 2007
A Northwest Airlines employee was arrested today and accused of sitting
next to a female passenger who was trying to sleep, cradling her body
and ejaculating on her during a flight from Seattle to the Twin Cities,
authorities said.
Samuel Oscar Gonzalez, 20, of Lakewood, Wash., was arrested by airport
police and charged with simple assault in U.S. District Court of
Minneapolis.
Northwest Airlines officials confirmed that Gonzales is an employee of
the airline. They declined to say what his job is.
According to a criminal complaint, a female passenger on Northwest
Airlines Flight 154 was traveling from Seattle-Tacoma International
Airport. Toward the end of the flight, the woman was trying to sleep in
her assigned aisle seat, when Gonzales sat down in the seat next to her.
The woman told authorities she felt Gonzalez 'spoon' her, or cradle her
body from behind, and then felt her shirt being lifted up.
After some time, the man then stood up and walked to the front of the
plane.
The woman then readjusted her shirt, and found 'warm fluid on her back
and on her side,' and also saw the fluid on her clothes and a seat, the
complaint stated. She later described the fluid as semen.
The woman immediately notified a flight attendant and was moved to
another seat near the front of the plane.
Gonzalez was arrested by airport police when the plane arrived in
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. the FBI is now handling the
case.
Northwest airlines officials released a statement saying an employee had
been suspended following 'an incident with another passenger' on this
morning's flight. They confirmed Gonzalez was an employee of the airline
-- but refused to identify him as the one suspended.
They added that the suspended employee was not a member of Flight 154's
flight crew.
Airport spokesman Pat Hogan declined to comment on the case, referring
calls to the F.B.I.
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