New York Post

FLYING TOO ‘HIGH’

’shroom passenger

- By DAVID MEYER

A United Airlines passenger who was high on magic mushrooms wreaked havoc on a Miami to Washington, DC, flight, attacking a passenger and a flight attendant, federal authoritie­s charged.

Cherruy Sevilla allegedly “yelled, exhibited disturbing/uncontroll­ed behavior, and assaulted at least two individual­s” during the wild Tuesday ride — one a flight attendant whose right breast he “grabbed and twisted,” according to an affidavit filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Freaking out

Sevilla copped to taking psilocybin, the hallucinog­enic compound in magic mushrooms, when FBI agents busted him after the plane landed at Dulles Airport in northern Virginia.

Sevilla, who said he had taken the drug before, “was not totally surprised that he acted this way after consuming” it, authoritie­s said.

The freak out began about one hour into the two-hour flight and ended with him screaming and yelling “incoherent things” while handcuffed, the filing said.

Over the course of his chaotic outburst, the Miami man allegedly wandered around the plane, ran up and down the aisle, clapped loudly and grabbed the arm of a female passenger.

He “refused to remain seated” and even laid on the floor at one point, the filing said.

When a flight attendant “calmly” asked him to return to his seat, he grabbed her breast — prompting other passengers, including an on-board law-enforcemen­t officer, to restrain him, authoritie­s said.

The high-as-a-kite traveler spent the rest of the flight screaming obscenitie­s while under the watch of the officer and a flight attendant. He’s due back in court Thursday.

“We’d like to thank our crew for handling this difficult situation with profession­alism,” the airline said in a statement provided to NBC News.

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