Stan D. Johnson - Albany County Sheriff's Office, File

ALBANY – A Bronx man admitted this week that he breached the fence at Albany International Airport last year and entered secure areas, federal prosecutors said.

He was then sentenced to time served, about six months, prosecutors said.

Stan D. Johnson, 23, of the Bronx, pleaded guilty to trespassing at the airport May 24, 2021.

In his indictment, authorities described him as intending to stowaway on a plane.

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Albany County Sheriff’s deputies first responded to the airport that morning at around 3:25 a.m. that morning for reports of a person on the secure side of the airport without authorization, sheriff’s officials said then. Airport deputies and TSA agents then located Johnson, officials said.

Further investigation revealed that Johnson got in by breaching an airport security fence, officials said then.

After breaching the fence, Johnson walked through the runway area until he entered a jet way bridge. He then got into the unoccupied aircraft‘s cockpit, officials said. 

Johnson then left the aircraft and went up the jet way, into the Gate 11 boarding area of Concourse B, where he was stopped by the agent, officials said.

The case was investigated by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Albany County Sheriff’s Office, the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Air Marshal Service. It was being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Wentworth-Ping.

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