Flight Attendant Accused Of Fabricating Bogus Bomb Threats

This undated photo provided by the Burleigh County Sheriff's Department in Bismarck, N.D., shows Justin Cox-Sever, 22, of Tempe, Ariz. Cox-Sever, a flight attendant accused of fabricating a story that prompted an eme... This undated photo provided by the Burleigh County Sheriff's Department in Bismarck, N.D., shows Justin Cox-Sever, 22, of Tempe, Ariz. Cox-Sever, a flight attendant accused of fabricating a story that prompted an emergency landing in North Dakota, told an FBI agent he caused a similar incident on the East Coast earlier this summer. Cox-Sever is accused of stuffing a bag with towels and reporting it as a suspicious package making beeping noises on a SkyWest Airlines flight from Minneapolis to Dickinson on Sept. 9, 2015. He is charged in federal court in North Dakota with interfering with the operation of an aircraft and communicating false information. (Burleigh County Sheriff's Department via AP) MORE LESS
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A flight attendant from Arizona accused of fabricating a bomb threat story that prompted an emergency landing in North Dakota is now accused in a similar incident in Virginia.

Justin Cox-Sever, of Tempe, Arizona, is facing federal charges in a bogus bomb threat on a SkyWest Airlines flight on the East Coast last July that prompted the airplane to turn around mid-flight.

Cox-Sever also is charged in federal court in North Dakota with disrupting a SkyWest flight in the upper Midwest two months later, prompting a temporary shutdown of an airport.

Cox-Sever has pleaded not guilty in the North Dakota incident and is scheduled for a three-day trial next month. He was indicted in the Virginia incident last week and no court dates have yet been scheduled.

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