A 45-year-old woman pleaded guilty earlier this week to a federal felony charge after she implied to an airline that a plane departing from Los Angeles International Airport was in danger. The man she accused was a Frenchman with whom she had had a four-day fling and who then “unfriended” her on Facebook.
Lizet Sariol of Temple City placed an anonymous call about 2 a.m. on Sept. 25 to a United call center in Detroit, Mich., saying that Adnen Mansouri and his friends, all of whom have Arabic surnames, posed an unspecified threat to a flight scheduled to depart that day from LAX to Las Vegas, NV, and then on to Paris, France, according to court documents.
FBI agents intercepted the group at LAX. Mansouri told them he had expected to be stopped as a result of being “harassed” by Sariol, according to the papers.
Mansouri explained that he’d had a fling with Sariol while vacationing in L.A., but had broken it off hours before he was due to return to France. He said he had been receiving threatening texts and Facebook postings from the woman in the preceding few hours.
