Passenger charged in Spirit Airlines incident at DTW on 9/11 anniversary
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Detroit News) The county Prosecutor's Office has charged a passenger in connection with allegedly assaulting a woman and calling her a Muslim terrorist on a Spirit Airlines flight at Detroit Metro Airport on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Alexandra Lynn Farr, 39, of Roseville was expected to be arraigned Friday through 34th District Court in Romulus on ethnic intimidation, a two-year high misdemeanor; disorderly person; and assault and battery, both 93-day misdemeanors, the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said Thursday.
The incident involved Spirit Airlines Flight 3807, which landed at the airport in Romulus around 6:25 p.m. Saturday from Atlanta.
Wayne County Airport Authority Police were alerted about an unruly passenger.
Aicha Toure, a 29-year-old Muslim woman arriving to visit family in Flint, told The Detroit News that Farr cursed at another passenger whose carry-on bag handle grazed her leg. .........(more)
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