Migrant security breach at JFK
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.