A traveler has been jailed after he allegedly groped a flight attendant.
Evan Nathaniel Castle, of Thornton, Colo., was on a Spirit Airlines flight when he supposedly groped a flight attendant as she walked by on the plane. Castle now faces a federal charge of abusive sexual contact on an aircraft, the Associated Press reports.
He was free on a personal recognizance bond Monday.
According to FBI agent Martin Daniell in court documents, Castle was highly intoxicated after having several drinks on Flight 562 from Las Vegas to Denver on Friday morning. He was being roudy and refused to listen to a flight attendant who told him to stop using vulgar language and to quiet down. He told another flight attendant that she was beautiful and said she should "blow off work and come with me. As the woman passed by his row, he grabbed her buttocks and said "oh sexy."
When the flight landed in Denver, Castle was arrested. He told investigators that he is married and didn't harass either of the flight attendants.
Castle is restricted from drinking or flying as his case is pending. His next court date is May 6.
This wasn't the first time someone was groped on a plane. In February, an intoxicated, off-duty pilot groped a woman that was sitting next to him on a British Airways flight. In August, a man grabbed the crotch of a teenager that was sitting next to him on a JetBlue flight. Also in August, a New Jersey man was arrested after he sexually assaulted a sleeping woman. She woke up with the man's hands in her shirt and shorts.
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