DENVER (AP) — A United Airways pilot has been charged with prison mischief for allegedly the usage of an ax to spoil a barrier gate at an worker car parking zone at Denver’s airport, telling government he was once looking to assist a number of drivers go out and “he simply hit his verge of collapse.”
Kenneth Henderson Jones, 63, is accused of many times hanging the steel parking arm with a long-handled ax Aug. 2, knocking it off of its base after which fleeing on foot when so much attendant faced him. The worker instructed investigators he was once ready to clutch the weapon from Jones all the way through a scuffle close to a safety fence. The pilot then bumped into a close-by box, the place he was once taken into custody via Denver police.
In keeping with a record via the Adams County Sheriff’s Place of business, Jones instructed a deputy that about six automobiles had been in the back of every of the car parking zone’s 3 go out gates, so he retrieved the ax from his parked automotive to assist the drivers depart.
“Kenneth began via announcing he simply hit his verge of collapse,” the record mentioned.
Jones, who was once launched in a while after the scuffle, didn’t in an instant reply to a telephone message left via The Related Press on Friday night time. A observation issued via the airline Friday mentioned Jones “was once got rid of from the agenda and is on depart whilst United conducts an inside investigation.”
The chief of the lot mentioned it could value about $300 to mend the broken parking arm, in keeping with the sheriff’s place of work record.