Man High On Mushrooms Attacked Attendants On Miami To D.C. Flight

MIAMI, FL — A man high on psilocybin — known as “magic” mushrooms — attacked flight attendants and disturbed passengers on a United Airlines flight from Miami to the Washington, D.C. area earlier this month, according to multiple reports.

The disturbance started about an hour into the Oct. 4 flight when Cherruy Loghan Sevilla grabbed the arm of the passenger seated next to him. After this, he began "wandering around the plane, running up and down the aisle, clapping loudly near the cockpit, and yelling obscenities,” according to USA Today.

Sevilla also broke off a piece of the bathroom door while it was locked and opened it while another passenger was inside, Local News 10 reported.

He refused to stay seated when flight attendants asked him to do so, lying down on the floor instead, and got close to other passengers’ faces, staring and smiling at them, according to NBC News.

He also attacked one of the flight attendants who asked him to sit down, “grabbing and twisting” her breast, reports said.

While a law enforcement officer who happened to be on the plane managed to get a handcuff on Sevilla’s right wrist, he needed the help of several others on the flight to control him and handcuff his left wrist, as well, according to The Washington Post.

Sevilla, who was guarded by the officer and a flight attendant after being handcuffed, screamed incoherently for the remainder of the flight.

During an interview with FBI agents in Virginia, after the plane landed at Washington Dulles International Airport, he said that he took the mushrooms before the flight, while he was at the Miami International Airport.

Sevilla told the agents that it wasn’t his first time taking the drug and that he was “not totally surprised that he acted this way after consuming it,” reports said. He also apologized for his actions on the plane.

He faces assault charges, as well as charges for interfering with flight crew members, according to reports.