{"id":355517,"date":"2025-11-04T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355517\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:49:11","slug":"man-told-police-he-didnt-know-how-to-fly-a-plane-but-wouldve-learned-after-driving-stolen-car-on-jax-ramp-jso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355517\/","title":{"rendered":"Man told police \u2018he didn\u2019t know how to fly a plane, but would\u2019ve learned\u2019 after driving stolen car on JAX ramp: JSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 A 34-year-old man was arrested Sunday after admitting to breaching through a security door, grabbing a car without authorization, and driving in a restricted area at the Jacksonville International Airport (JAX), according to his arrest report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Saturday, an officer with the Jacksonville Aviation Authority was dispatched to a door that had been forced, which had triggered the alarm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to the arrest report, surveillance video showed the man forcing the door to the restricted area and entering the ramp. He then entered a JIA-designated ramp vehicle and drove to Concourse C, where aircrafts taxi and park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The man then parked and exited the vehicle, and then tried to enter several Concourse C gates, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to the report, the man was seen at the top of the stairs in the restricted area, trying to enter gate C10. He was then taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">His arrest report states that the man admitted to entering the restricted area, and once there, he entered the unlocked JIA vehicle without authorization and drove on the ramp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThe suspect stated he did not know how to fly a plane, but would have learned,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He was arrested and transported to jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The report also says Airport Operations Control Center (AOCC) informed responding officers that the suspect had been displaying \u201cbizarre\u201d behavior in the terminal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The man is now facing charges of theft of a motor vehicle, burglary and trespass in operational area of airport \u2014 all three are third-degree felonies.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A 34-year-old man was arrested Sunday after admitting to breaching through a security door, grabbing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":305333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,18001,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-355517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jax","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115492694555864012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}