Teen sentenced to prison for airport threats
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:36 pm
By Toni Heinzl, Star-Telegram Staff Writer
FORT WORTH, Texas - A 19-year-old Californian could be a poster boy for a campaign warning people to take airport security seriously.
Deshon Brown, an aviation technology student, was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine for phoning in threats of violence to the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.
Tears streamed down Brown's face as he left the federal courtroom in downtown Fort Worth. His father wrapped his arm around the teen-ager's shoulders.
Brown, who entered the Westwood College Institution of Aviation Technology in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood in October, may have to put aside his plans to become a certified aviation mechanic or to carry the badge of a deputy U.S. marshal.
FORT WORTH, Texas - A 19-year-old Californian could be a poster boy for a campaign warning people to take airport security seriously.
Deshon Brown, an aviation technology student, was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine for phoning in threats of violence to the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.
Tears streamed down Brown's face as he left the federal courtroom in downtown Fort Worth. His father wrapped his arm around the teen-ager's shoulders.
Brown, who entered the Westwood College Institution of Aviation Technology in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood in October, may have to put aside his plans to become a certified aviation mechanic or to carry the badge of a deputy U.S. marshal.