Woman who stowed away on flight to Paris arrested again in Buffalo

BUFFALO, NY — A Russian woman who was arrested after her stowed during a flight from New York City to Paris last month was arrested again in Buffalo, authorities said.

Svetlana Dali, 57, was scheduled to appear in federal court in Buffalo on Tuesday afternoon, said Barbara Burns, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office for western New York.

Authorities say Dali evaded security at John F. Kennedy International Airport and flew to Paris as a stowaway on a Delta Air Lines flight on November 26.

French police met Dali at the gate and detained her when the plane landed in Paris early November 27.

Dali, a legal resident of the US, was flown back to New York and was arrested there indicted on December 5 in federal court in Brooklyn on charges of stowaway.

At one bail hearing The next day, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph A. Marutollo agreed to release Dali under electronic monitoring and a requirement that she live in the Philadelphia home of a man she met at church events and adhered to a curfew would submit.

Federal prosecutors did not release details of her arrest in Buffalo on Monday.

A message seeking comment was sent to Michael Schneider, the attorney who represented her in court in Brooklyn.

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