Suspicious traveler leaps from Miami airport concourse, breaks bones
A traveler was arrested Monday after he bolted from security screeners at Miami International Airport, jumped from a second-floor concourse and broke his arm and ribs, authorities said.
Transportation and Security Administration officials became suspicious of Faid Beydoun as he stood in a security line. When Beydoun’s travel documents also raised concerns, agents asked him to step out of line for a secondary screening.
Beydoun, who was carrying multiple passports, then ran from security screeners, jumped 25 feet off the second-floor concourse and broke his arm and ribs, the Miami Herald reported.
Miami-Dade police charged the traveler with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence, according to a statement. They did not identify him, but Miami-Dade County Corrections Department spokeswoman Janelle Hall said Beydoun was arrested on the same charges Monday, as well as loitering and prowling.
Telephone calls placed to Miami-Dade police, the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were not immediately returned Monday night.
Beydoun, 42, is being held in the hospital ward of the Miami-Dade jail at Jackson Memorial Hospital without bail for immigration, Hall said.
Two other men, also headed to Los Angeles, were taken off a later flight that was still on the tarmac. They told investigators they paid for Beydoun’s plane ticket and that he was their Miami Beach party guide. No weapons or dangerous material were found with them.
Beydoun did not have an attorney listed.
Associated Press