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Port Authority: Man charged with making terrorist threat

Originally published: November 19, 2012 12:32 PM
Updated: November 19, 2012 9:20 PM
By GARY DYMSKI  gary.dymski@newsday.com

A Rockland County man was arrested Monday after he was removed from a Florida-bound flight just before takeoff at LaGuardia Airport because he made a terrorist threat, authorities said.

Samuel Aristil, 30, of Spring Valley, allegedly refused to turn off his cellphone on board Spirit Flight 197 to Fort Lauderdale and made comments that were "deemed threatening," Port Authority spokesman Ron...

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