Crime
Drunken Florida Man Crashes Airport Gate, Tries To Board Aircraft While Intoxicated
A Florida man is facing charges for allegedly crashing through the fence at Daytona Beach International Airport and trying to board multiple aircraft while “highly intoxicated,” authorities said.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said a deputy responded at around 4:25 p.m. Wednesday to a report that a blue Ford Mustang had crashed through a perimeter fence gate at Daytona Beach International Airport, and arrived to find the gate “destroyed and lying on the ground.”
Staff reported the Mustang had continued to the Embry-Riddle section of the airport after crashing the gate. “Moments later,” the deputy found the suspect had already been detained by airport operations and Embry-Riddle security personnel.
Witnesses told investigators that the driver, later identified as 58-year-old Bryan J. Parker, had driven onto the taxiway and nearly struck an Embry-Riddle plane that was in motion.
Parker then allegedly exited his vehicle and tried unsuccessfully to enter the occupied plane. He then allegedly ran to other aircraft in the area, and an airport operations technician “chased him down, pulled him out of a plane and sat him on his truck’s tailgate.”
That wasn’t the end, however. Parker allegedly “jumped off the tailgate” and tried to board yet another aircraft before he was apprehended again.
According to the sheriff’s office, Parker allegedly admitted he was under the influence of alcohol and drugs and “didn’t remember what led to the incident.”
Parker was arrested and booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail on charges of attempted aircraft piracy, burglary of a conveyance, felony trespass, exposure of sexual organ, criminal mischief, DUI property damage, and refusal to submit to testing.
