THE 19-YR.-OLD COMPASS AIRLINES FLIGHT ATTENDANT who was charged back in May with setting a fire in an aircraft lavatory has skipped his scheduled preliminary hearing that was held yesterday (Friday). Eder Rojas was being held in a half-way house in Chicago and supposedly walked out without permission around 3 am Friday morning and is unaccounted for.
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Firegeezer reported on the story HERE and HERE about the misguided miscreant who was angry with his supervisors and, while the plane was 30,000 ft. in the air, went back to the bathroom and lit a roll of paper towels on fire.
While he had confessed to investigators that he had started the fire, he pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Federal court in June. During the arraignment, prosecuters disclosed that he was also onboard a flight five weeks previously to this incident where a similar fire was started in the lavatory, but Rojas has not been charged with that crime.
U.S. District Judge Rodney Webb ordered federal marshals to find Rojas and arrest him. The judge later postponed the trial, which was scheduled to begin Monday.
The Canadian Press has this recent report on the Plane Potty arsonist HERE.
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