Federal grand jury in Brooklyn indicts Delta flight stowaway

January 14, 2025 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, more informally known as Brooklyn Federal Court, in Downtown Brooklyn. Photo: Rob Abruzzese/Brooklyn Eagle

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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A federal grand jury in Brooklyn on Monday indicted the woman who allegedly snuck onto a Paris-bound flight from JFK International Airport back in November. Svetlana Dali, who has received wide media publicity for this action, snuck onto a Delta Airlines flight without a ticket on November 26, and traveled as a stowaway to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. The FBI initially arrested Dali on Dec. 4, and she was assigned an ankle bracelet with a GPS monitor. She cut that device open and was trying to escape to Canada when her housemate discovered it and she was re-arrested for skipping bail, according to an ABC News report published on Dec. 17. Arrested on the U.S. side of the border, she then declined a public defender’s services and tried representing herself. At that time, she made statements about having been trafficked and poisoned.

A hearing on her bail violation had already been scheduled for Wednesday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office/Eastern District of New York. If convicted, Dali faces up to five years in prison.

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