Russian Stowaway Found Guilty of Sneaking onto LA Flight

Sergey Vladimirovich Ochigava faces up to five years in federal prison for bypassing security at Copenhagen Airport and boarding a plane to Los Angeles without a ticket or passport.

Sergey Vladimirovich Ochigava, a Russian man, was found guilty of sneaking onto a Denmark to Los Angeles flight without a ticket or passport.
Ochigava was able to bypass security at Copenhagen Airport by following another passenger through the security checkpoint and then boarding the plane undetected.
During the flight, Ochigava switched between unoccupied seats multiple times and managed to receive double meal portions from the flight crew.
Upon landing in LA, officials took Ochigava into custody when they found he did not have a passport and wasn’t listed on the passenger manifest.
Ochigava faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 5.