He did it all for love.
by Alicia Cruz
The Black Urban Times
Haisong Jiang, who neighbors and Friends describe as a hopeless romantic, studious and quiet was hopelessly smitten with his girlfriend who visited him in New Jersey from her home in California and was seeing her off from Newark International Airport during the New Years Day holiday weekend.
He just wanted to spend as much time with her as he could before her flight departed. He swears he's no international terrorist. Just a young man in love.
His impromptu action led to a major security breach that shut down Terminal C in Newark International Airport for seven hours, stranded over 10,000 passengers and caused delays for airlines in January.
The incident made Newark Airport the poster child for aviation security issues.
Jiang is a doctoral student from China attending Rutgers University. He was arrested five days after the security breach and told Port of Authority police that he simply wanted to give his woman one last kiss good-bye not cause a major ruckus at the airport.
Jiang, of Piscataway, was caught on security camera lurking while he waited for a TSA agent to leave his post. Then we see him ducking under a security ribbon to join his girlfriend on the other side. They embraced and walked away arm-in-arm into an area of the airport that should have been open only to people who had cleared security screenings.
"I didn’t do anything inside the gate and didn’t leave anything inside. I only walked through the gate with my girlfriend and waited the line of the gate entrance (sic)," said Jiang.
In a statement dated January 3, 5 p.m. Jiang wrote, "After my girlfriend went into the plane I left immediately and didn’t do anything in the airport," his statement read.
"Finally I drove my car and went back home."
Jiang, 28, who is scheduled for a hearing in Newark Tuesday afternoon on a defiant trespass charge, faces up to 30 days in jail in addition to a $500 fine if found guilty. Friends of the young college student say he was quite smitten with the woman, his first girlfriend, and simply wanted to stay with her until the last minute before she boarded her flight.
Columnist, Mark DiIonno doesn't feel Jiang's behavior fits the trespass charge he's been hit with. DiIonno called Jiang's antics "purposeful" and "sneaky." He feels Jiang should have been charged with criminal trespass. Read his opinion piece here.
The Black Urban Times
Haisong Jiang, who neighbors and Friends describe as a hopeless romantic, studious and quiet was hopelessly smitten with his girlfriend who visited him in New Jersey from her home in California and was seeing her off from Newark International Airport during the New Years Day holiday weekend.
He just wanted to spend as much time with her as he could before her flight departed. He swears he's no international terrorist. Just a young man in love.
His impromptu action led to a major security breach that shut down Terminal C in Newark International Airport for seven hours, stranded over 10,000 passengers and caused delays for airlines in January.
The incident made Newark Airport the poster child for aviation security issues.
Jiang is a doctoral student from China attending Rutgers University. He was arrested five days after the security breach and told Port of Authority police that he simply wanted to give his woman one last kiss good-bye not cause a major ruckus at the airport.
Jiang, of Piscataway, was caught on security camera lurking while he waited for a TSA agent to leave his post. Then we see him ducking under a security ribbon to join his girlfriend on the other side. They embraced and walked away arm-in-arm into an area of the airport that should have been open only to people who had cleared security screenings.
"I didn’t do anything inside the gate and didn’t leave anything inside. I only walked through the gate with my girlfriend and waited the line of the gate entrance (sic)," said Jiang.
In a statement dated January 3, 5 p.m. Jiang wrote, "After my girlfriend went into the plane I left immediately and didn’t do anything in the airport," his statement read.
"Finally I drove my car and went back home."
Jiang, 28, who is scheduled for a hearing in Newark Tuesday afternoon on a defiant trespass charge, faces up to 30 days in jail in addition to a $500 fine if found guilty. Friends of the young college student say he was quite smitten with the woman, his first girlfriend, and simply wanted to stay with her until the last minute before she boarded her flight.
Columnist, Mark DiIonno doesn't feel Jiang's behavior fits the trespass charge he's been hit with. DiIonno called Jiang's antics "purposeful" and "sneaky." He feels Jiang should have been charged with criminal trespass. Read his opinion piece here.
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