So How Did Man Get Through SJ Airport Security, Steal Vehicle And Dash Through Terminal Before Arrest? WATCH SURVEILLANCE VIDEOS

Mineta San Jose International Airport released surveillance video Monday of a 39-year-old man arrested Sunday after he entered the tarmac of a private aviation facility and allegedly stole an airport vehicle, a spokeswoman said.

The suspect, Miguel Zaragoza, was booked Sunday on suspicion of possession of a stolen vehicle and trespassing into the Santa Clara County Jail, where his bail was set at $30,000, according to San Jose police and jail records.

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At about 10:15 a.m. Sunday, an unauthorized person was reported on the tarmac of Atlantic Aviation, a private air transport facility on the non-commercial west side of the San Jose airport, airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes said.

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Atlantic Aviation employees contacted and escorted the person, later identified as Zaragoza, from the general aviation ramp to the lobby of the facility’s passenger terminal and called San Jose police, Barnes said.

But Zaragoza fled the building onto a public parking lot of the Atlantic terminal, where he spoke to an airport maintenance employee doing landscaping work and requested the worker to drive him to the commercial airline terminals on the east side of the airport, she said.

When the employee refused, Zaragoza got into the worker’s vehicle, turned on the engine and drove onto Coleman Avenue toward the commercial terminals, police and airport officials said.

He exited the vehicle and entered the lobby of the airport’s Terminal B, where airport employees and San Jose police stopped him and officers placed him under arrest, according to Barnes.

No one was injured and the incident did not affect flights at the airport, Barnes said. San Jose airport officials on Monday released seven segments of security videos from Zaragoza’s activities there.

The first of the segments showed a rooftop view of the maintenance vehicle allegedly being driven by the suspect and followed by vehicles driven by airport employees, according to airport officials.

In subsequent video clips, the suspect vehicle can be seen driving out of the airport’s rental car facility toward Terminal B, then Zaragoza himself is seen running inside the terminal’s ticket lobby, walking in front of a ticket counter and then being detained by airport employees and contractors.

The final two segments show San Jose police arriving and arresting the suspect at the curb outside the terminal, officials reported.

Video links here.

--Bay City News