Man scales fences, runs onto San Diego airport runway
Jul 17, 2015, 1:54 PM
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Police arrested a shirtless man believed to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol after he scaled two fences and ran onto a runway at San Diego International Airport, briefly interrupting flights.
Airport authority spokesman Jonathan Heller says all incoming and outgoing planes were halted for about seven minutes Thursday evening.
Heller says a maintenance worker spotted the man as he climbed over the fence near where planes wait before takeoff. Police say the man scaled a perimeter fence ringed with barbed wire before that.
Officers arrested 34-year-old Jonathan Edgcomb on suspicion of trespassing and being under the influence of a controlled substance. He’s scheduled to appear in court Monday.
It wasn’t immediately known if Edgcomb has a lawyer.
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