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Bruce Michael Alexander, 49, a resident of Tampa, was in federal custody after being charged on Sunday of abusive intercourse with a female passenger during a return flight between Houston and Albuquerque, New Mexico, the police said. complaint.
It is not known if Alexander has a lawyer.
The charge is punishable by up to two years imprisonment and $ 250,000.
The woman has been identified in court documents as "C.W." She told the investigators that she had fallen asleep after having boarded flight 5421 and 15 to 20 minutes after the start of the flight, she "felt a movement on the right side of her sweater", said the complaint.
She stated that she "felt her clothes move and finger contact on her right side around the line of her bra". According to the complaint, she saw a siege hand behind her and assumed that she had been hit by an accident.
But 30 minutes later, according to the complaint, the woman "felt fingers slowly grabbing her back of the arm, hugging her elbow, then slowly and" carefully "groping her right side, still around her ribs and from her "bra line." "She said she saw a hand with thick, hairy fingers and dirty nails.
The woman claimed to have confronted the man sitting behind her and told her "that she did not know why he thought it was acceptable" to touch her and that he had to stop, said the complaint. She was relocated to the back of the plane.
Alexander told investigators that he had slept for most of the flight. After being handcuffed, he asked what the sentence was, according to the complaint.
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