JetBlue Pilot Arrested on Youngster Intercourse Cost Earlier than Starting Boston-to-Paris Flight

A JetBlue pilot was arrested whereas getting ready for a flight from Boston’s Logan Worldwide Airport to Paris on Thursday, Feb. 20, after officers discovered an lively warrant for his arrest in North Carolina.

Jeremy Gudorf, 33, of Ohio was arrested on the airplane Thursday night by Massachusetts State Police. After U.S. Customs and Border Safety performed a “commonplace evaluate” of the flight’s manifest, they found a warrant “lodged in opposition to a member of the flight crew who was detained,” a state police spokesperson informed NBC Information. 

Gudorf was arraigned in East Boston District Courtroom Friday, studies NBC Boston and WCVB. Prosecutors mentioned the North Carolina warrant was on a cost of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. He was additionally charged in Massachusetts as a fugitive from justice, per NBC Boston.

Prosecutors requested for Gudorf to be held with out bail and to give up his passport. 

“He does have the monetary capability to lease a automobile and drive to North Carolina,” Gudorf’s protection legal professional, Tanvi Verma, mentioned, per WCVB. “He has assured me he’ll try this.” His legal professional additionally informed the courtroom he had no prior legal historical past, per NBC Boston.

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“Frankly, there is no such thing as a working away from this case, choose. He is completely conscious of that,” Verma mentioned, per WMUR. “These are severe expenses. The information is right here. He isn’t going to have the ability to simply run away from this.”

Whereas the choose didn’t take Gudorf’s passport, he was ordered to be held on $10,000 bail. He was additionally ordered to return to North Carolina by Feb. 25. A courtroom date in Massachusetts is scheduled for March 19, nevertheless, that might be waived if he clears the warrant.

The specifics of his case in North Carolina weren’t mentioned in courtroom Friday, per NBC Boston. The warrant was primarily based in Huntersville, N.C., the place Gudorf as soon as lived.

The Huntersville Police Division mentioned in a assertion Friday that it acquired a tip from the Nationwide Middle for Lacking and Exploited Kids in October 2024. After an investigation, they obtained a search warrant for Google “resulting in the identification of the supply of the reported pictures,” police mentioned.

“Late final 12 months, Google complied with the warrant and supplied the mandatory data to legislation enforcement,” the Huntersville police mentioned. “Based mostly on the proof gathered, HPD investigators secured an arrest warrant for Mr. Gudorf on expenses of Second-Diploma Sexual Exploitation of a Minor.”

“As public defenders, it’s our duty to make sure that each single considered one of our purchasers is presumed harmless, and handled accordingly, till confirmed in any other case by the state,” Verma mentioned in a press release to PEOPLE. “Each defendant is entitled to that presumption and to a zealous protection in courtroom by legislation, whatever the expenses in opposition to them.”

JetBlue mentioned in a press release to a number of shops that Gudorf was positioned on “indefinite depart.”

“We’re conscious of and intently reviewing the arrest of considered one of our pilots upon reporting for work at Boston’s Logan Airport Thursday night because of an excellent warrant,” the airline’s assertion learn. “The pilot has been positioned on indefinite depart as legislation enforcement proceeds with the matter.”

PEOPLE has reached out to the Massachusetts State Police and JetBlue for remark.