Woman indicted in Denver for assaulting flight attendant
Associated Press
Published July 8, 2008 at 2:01 p.m.
Updated July 8, 2008 at 2:32 p.m.
Photo by Marc Piscotty / Special to the Rocky
Christina Elizabeth Szele
A Denver grand jury has indicted a New York woman accused of assaulting a flight attendant on a flight to San Francisco.
Authorities accuse Christina Elizabeth Szele of shouting obscenities and racial slurs at a flight attendant who tried to stop her from smoking on the plane. The FBI says JetBlue crew members used plastic handcuffs to restrain the 35-year-old, but she broke them and punched a flight attendant in the jaw.
Szele, of Woodside, N.Y., is free on $10,000 bail. She was indicted today on three counts, including interfering with a flight and assault involving two flight attendants.
She faces up to 10 1/2 years in prison if convicted of the charges.
Szele's brother said her sister is not a racist and that she's embarrassed by what happened.
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July 8, 2008
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She is a looker isnt she?
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HolierThanThou writes:
Probably looks a bit like your mom.
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HolierThanThou writes:
And I'll bet she drinks like her, too.
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squatch... Back away from the mirror.
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I didn't know Holier and Squatch were brother and sister.
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Squatch writes:
Very funny. I better not say anything to steel or Grunt otherwise i will be the bad guy.
She is a lovely lady that just needs some intervention since im sure its not her fault.
July 8, 2008
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steel writes:
"Ugly, bigot. Alcoholic,tobacco puffing loser. No man in his right mind would touch her. Ewwwww....."
Or woman.
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Talk away Squatch... It's America!!
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Grunt, did you do that bike thing at the VA last weekend?
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FlyFish, yes the story is useless but here we all are.
Kind of sad. I clicked on the story just to see the picture again, like someone would look at a car accident, knowing that I really don't want to see what was there.
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temurlan..."And BAM, the picture is worse than before!"
That's because you're sober now.
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Lordy. She looks like trouble a'comin'.
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Steel, LOL
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Did I miss how she was able to get matches or a lighter past security ??