Man accused of sneaking onto plane in Pa. PITTSBURGH (AP) =97 A man described as a paranoid schizophrenic sneaked=20 through security at Pittsburgh's airport late at night and was found=20 sleeping aboard a parked commuter airplane the next morning, authorities=20 said. The airport's security chief said he was "extremely upset" over the= =20 weekend incident. Louis Esquivel remained at the Allegheny County Jail on= =20 Wednesday in lieu of $25,000 bond, county Police Superintendent Ken Fulton= =20 said. He was charged with criminal trespass, theft, receiving stolen=20 property and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Flight attendants told=20 police they found Esquivel, 23, of San Antonio, at 5:30 a.m. Saturday in a= =20 seventh-row seat of an American Eagle plane. He had neither proper=20 passenger credentials nor an airport pass, according to an arrest warrant. Allegheny County police said Esquivel told them he was able to dodge=20 security by ducking behind a closed ticket counter in the all-but-deserted= =20 airport late Friday. From there, he went through a tunnel, got on the=20 tarmac, and jumped aboard a United Airlines van where he found the keys in= =20 the ashtray, according to an affidavit. He drove to a gate, got onto an=20 enclosed ramp and boarded the unlocked plane, officials said. "It raised=20 tremendous alarms for me and, obviously, I'm extremely upset about it,"=20 said Robert Blose, head of security for the federal Transportation Security= =20 Administration at Pittsburgh's airport. Airport spokeswoman JoAnne Jenny said ticket counters are supposed to be=20 kept secure either by airport officials or airlines. Officials are=20 investigating whether someone forgot to secure the baggage conveyor belt or= =20 if something was broken. Esquivel has paranoid schizophrenia, according to= =20 a San Antonio police missing-persons report. He disappeared May 18 from a=20 small boarding home, said his mother, Maria Esquivel. "He wasn't trying to= =20 blow up a plane or something like that," she said. Esquivel told a flight= =20 attendant he was a passenger from the evening flight and simply spent the=20 night on the plane, police said. But later, police said, he told detectives= =20 he wanted to fly the plane to St. Louis, his boyhood home. "I mean=20 literally fly it," Fulton said. "We are dealing with somebody who is not in= =20 reality here." Police said after leaving Texas, Esquivel made his way to=20 Los Angeles and then to Pittsburgh, where he stayed at least one night at=20 an airport hotel. Federal rules require parked airplanes to be=20 disconnected from jet bridges and their doors closed but does not require=20 them to be locked, Lisa Bailey, an American Eagle spokeswoman, told the=20 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@xxxxxxxxx Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Mas Site: www.tntisland.com/tntrecords/mas2003/ Site of the Week: http://www.caribbeanfloral.com TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************