Stowaway on flight to Paris tried to sneak into secure areas of other US airports, prosecutor says

A woman who evaded security to be a stowaway on a New York-to-Paris flight last month claims she’d tried to sneak into secure areas of other U.S. airports before in a bid to travel without a ticket, a prosecutor said Friday. Svetlana Dali, 57, told investigators that she had tried to travel for free at several domestic airports, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brooke Theodora said at a bail hearing as she described concerns by the government that Dali might flee while awaiting trial on a stowaway charge. Theodora said those attempts included one last February at Miami International Airport, where Dali was turned away as she tried to sneak into a secure area by going through a customs processing area to reach departing flights. The prosecutor made the remarks as she urged that bail conditions be strict enough to ensure Dali, an unemployed Russian woman with permanent U.S. residency, would attend her court hearings. Dali, who wore a brown jailhouse uniform and entered a courtroom limping with a cane, spoke to her lawyer through a Russian interpreter. Earlier, she’d been treated and released from a hospital for treatment of an undisclosed nature. The hospital’s identification card was on her wrist.<br/>