A Florida man was sentenced Friday to four months in federal prison for assaulting a gate agent at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). The sentence was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Chad E. Meacham.
Keith Charles Owens, 53, faced charges initially filed in November 2024 and entered a guilty plea in January 2025 to interfering with security screening personnel. U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor sentenced Owens to four months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay nearly $6,000 in restitution.
According to his plea agreement, Owens admitted to assaulting an American Airlines gate agent on October 5, 2024, at DFW Airport. Security footage of the incident captured Owens striking the gate agent multiple times in the head…