A woman was arrested for the second time in a week at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, days after allegedly boarding a Delta Air Lines flight without a ticket.
The Port of Seattle Police Department (POSPD) was dispatched on Friday to help the Transportation Security Administration with a person “considered not to have official airport business,” an airport spokesperson told USA TODAY in an emailed statement.
“TSA attempted to make first contact with the individual near Checkpoint 3 and called in POSPD for support,” the statement said. Police determined she did not have airport business and arrested her for trespassing.
“The individual did not pass through any of the checkpoints,” the statement continued. The airport spokesperson did not identify the woman.
The woman reportedly told police she was picking her sister up but “did not have a ticket and could not list a real airline for the flight her sister was on,” according to local outlet KING 5 . The incident came days after she allegedly boarded a Delta Air Lines flight to Honolulu, Hawaii, without a boarding pass on Dec. 24.