Glendale woman sentenced for assaulting TSA agent at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport
Sep 18, 2024, 3:00 PM | Updated: 4:31 pm
A woman was sentenced for assaulting a TSA agent at Sky Harbor Airport last year. (Sky Harbor Airport photo)
(Sky Harbor Airport photo)
PHOENIX — A 20-year-old Glendale woman was sentenced to four months in prison for assaulting a TSA agent at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport last year, authorities said Wednesday.
On Apr. 5, 2023, Ma’Kiah Cherae Coleman grabbed and forced an agent’s head down against a baggage screening area table and punched the agent several times before being restrained by other TSA agents.
She pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer inflicting bodily injury on Apr. 23.
Coleman also received three years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona.
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Coleman is banned from traveling by commercial aircraft during the three-year term of her court supervision.
U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes oversaw Coleman’s sentencing in a Phoenix court.
The case was investigated by the Transportation Security Administration, the FBI and Phoenix PD. The prosecution was managed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona.
