New York Post

Migrant security breach at JFK

- Larry Celona, Dean Balsamini

An Ecuadorian migrant was arrested at JFK Airport with a pair of scissors and a box cutter in a “serious security breach” Saturday morning, according to law-enforcemen­t sources.

Kleber Loor-Ponce, 24, who was living at a shelter in a former JFK warehouse, allegedly ran through a guard post in the air operations area, where a trespasser could gain access to the planes, cargo, fuel lines and baggage.

He lingered there for about 30 minutes before he was spotted by a DHL worker at 3 a.m. and arrested, the sources said.

It was unclear what LoorPonce was doing there.

“This is the most sensitive area of any airport, and this was a serious security breach,” said a law-enforcemen­t source. “Luckily, he was caught before he could do any serious damage.”

Authoritie­s charged LoorPonce with criminal possession of a weapon, trespassin­g and obstructin­g government­al administra­tion.

Loor-Ponce had been staying in Building 197, where mail was stored before it was converted into migrant housing.

The airport arrest comes amid a Big Apple migrant crime wave.

On Saturday afternoon, migrant Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa, 15, was held without bail at his arraignmen­t on attempted-murder charges after allegedly firing a gun at a security guard and cops in Times Square, injuring a tourist.

This comes on the heels of a migrant mob’s violent beating of two cops, also in Times Square.

The assault on the officers was caught on camera.

And groups of migrants have allegedly orchestrat­ed shopliftin­g rings in the five boroughs, including one moped-riding crew that was grabbing cellphones out of people’s hands and in one case brutally dragged a 62-year-old woman down a Brooklyn street, police sources previously told The Post.

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