Aditya Singh, 36, was arrested on January 16 after living as an invader at Chicago O’Hare International Airport for three months
New security footage shows the moment when a man who lived undetected for three months at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport was arrested while wearing a yellow safety vest.
Aditya Singh, 36, was arrested on January 16 after living as an invader at the airport for months without suspicion.
Singh, who is unemployed and lived with “roommates” in Orange, Los Angeles, was transferred to Chicago on October 19 and was “too scared to fly home to LA because of COVID,” said assistant attorney Kathleen Hagerty.
Instead of leaving, Singh decided to hide inside a secure section of the airport.
He allegedly pretended to be an airport official when he was interrogated by uniformed police officers outside an airport bathroom, the busiest in the country.
A new video of his arrest shows the moment when police stopped to interrogate Singh outside a men’s room at the airport on January 16. He wore a bright yellow safety vest and sweatpants
In the shoot, Singh obeys a police investigation before being escorted away
Police said he was found with a security credential badge from the airport operations manager, which was lost at the time Singh started to live at the airport.
The prison video obtained by ABC News shows a group of police officers to question him and he reaches out to be searched before leaving with them.
He was found with a security credential badge from the airport operations manager, whose disappearance was reported on October 26, around the time Singh started to live at the airport.
Singh, who has a master’s degree in hospitality and has no criminal record, said he survived on food from other airport passengers.
He reportedly made a home for himself in Terminal 2 near gate F12 between the Cinnabon store and a shoeshine stand, according to Fox25.
He was eventually arrested when two United Airlines employees suspected him and confronted Singh, who then showed him the airport identification badge he had found.
He was charged with criminal intrusion into a restricted area of an airport and misdemeanor theft of less than $ 500.
Singh pictured on the left when he was a graduate student at Oklahoma State University and on the right in a social media photo
Shortly after his arrest, Singh was released on $ 10,000 bail and forced to wear an electronic ankle bracelet and moved to a homeless shelter in Chicago, according to NBC Chicago.
As a condition of bail, he was ordered to stay away from the airport. His next court hearing is scheduled for March 2 in Skokie.
The Chicago Aviation Department said in a statement: ‘Although this incident remains under investigation, we were able to determine that this man did not pose a security risk to the airport or to the traveling public.’
“We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to fully investigate this matter,” added the statement.
Singh’s friends expressed shock at the news that he is crouching at the airport.
He was eventually arrested when two United Airlines employees suspected him and confronted Singh, who then showed him the airport identification badge he had found
“It seemed very different for him to do something like just disconnect from the outside world,” said Adam Dinkledine, who shared a house with Singh when they were both students at Oklahoma State University in the fall of 2017.
‘I definitely wouldn’t have foreseen this. I hope he can get some appropriate help for this situation, ‘he added.
‘He would enter a room and light up the space. He was an excellent example of what a person in the hospitality industry seeks to do, which is to involve others and inspire others, ‘Katherine Ruck, who worked with Singh in Oklahoma’s Taylor’s Dining Room, a restaurant linked to campus Hospitality School said.