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--Report typos and corrections to: .A New York woman has been sentenced to four months in prison for interfering with the crew on a flight from Dallas to Los Angeles that had to be diverted to Phoenix because of her actions, reports. Kelly Pichardo and another female passenger, who were both flying first class, engaged in "intimidating behavior" on the flight and had to be removed from the plane when it landed in Phoenix. According to police, both women each assaulted a passenger and used racial slurs when another passenger asked them to stop. When the passenger tried to record their behavior, Pichardo spit at him.The two women were later indicted for disorderly conduct for verbally and physically assaulting other customers and flight crew members.Pichardo, a 32-year-old resident of the Bronx, must also pay nearly $9,200 restitution to American Airlines. She will also serve three years of supervised release following her prison sentence.IN OTHER NEWS: "There is a line between boorish behavior on an airplane and criminal activity, and the defendant clearly crossed it," . "First class passengers are not immune from prosecution: defendant's verbal and physical intimidation disrupted the travel of passengers and crew alike."The other woman, Leeza S. Rodriguez, has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in November.Alek Skarlatos, a Republican candidate for Congress in a competitive Oregon district, repeatedly “liked” photos of underage girls in bikinis on Instagram and joked about strangling women on a podcast shortly before beginning his political career four years ago.Skarlatos, 29, is a former Oregon National Guardsman who parlayed his recognition for helping stop a terrorist on an Paris-bound train in 2015 into multiple reality show appearances and two previous unsuccessful campaigns for Congress and the Douglas County Commission.He faces Democrat Val Hoyle, the current commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, in a race for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, currently represented by Democrat Peter DeFazio. The district, which includes Eugene and most of southwest Oregon, is one of three targeted by both national political parties.Skarlatos’ comments about choking women were on in 2018 to promote a Clint Eastwood movie dramatization of the thwarted train attack. Skarlatos appeared as himself in the film.In March 2018, two months before Skarlatos launched his campaign for Douglas County Commission, he and film co-star Spencer Stone, a former Air Force staff sergeant who also helped stop the terrorist attack, appeared on the podcast “Drinkin’ Bros.” For 45 minutes, the pair and two podcast hosts discussed the film and speculated about celebrities’ sex lives, and Skarlatos read aloud some of his messages from the dating app Tinder.Then, the conversation turned to choking in the bedroom.“You ever thought if you choked someone and killed them in bed what would happen?” podcast host Ross Patterson asked.“Oh yeah,” Skarlatos responded, laughing. “Oh yeah.”The conversation about women dying during sex continued, with Stone saying he had plans to sit in on a trial of a man charged with choking his girlfriend to death during what the defendant described as a consensual encounter. Skarlatos then referred to a in which a man argued that his girlfriend accidentally suffocated while performing oral sex, saying that the man wasn’t convicted and “got off, in more ways than one.”Around the time of Skarlatos’s podcast appearance, the Oregon Legislature during domestic violence to a felony. Strangulation was also made a federal felony in the 2013 reauthorization of the federal Violence Against Women Act.have found that more than half of female college students have been choked by partners during sex and have linked an increase in strangulation attempts to depictions of choking in pornographic videos that don’t show how dangerous it is.Earlier in the episode, Skarlatos also complained about the physical appearances of women in Roseburg, and how he had to travel elsewhere to date.“There’s literally two attractive women in my town,” Skarlatos said.Following a request for comment from the Capital Chronicle, Skarlatos apologized in a statement shared by his campaign.“Looking back at the comments I made as a 24-year-old who just left the Army, I’m disappointed,” he said. “I apologize if I offended anyone.”Within the past few months, Skarlatos has also “liked” photos of underage girls wearing bikinis and other skimpy outfits on Instagram. One such photo, posted by a then-17-year-old girl this past March, shows her in a string bikini bottom and a sweatshirt raised to display her midriff.Since 2020, Skarlatos liked dozens of photos of teenage girls, including several in which the girls are wearing two-piece bathing suits or midriff-baring crop tops. The two youngest girls were 15 at the time Skarlatos liked their pictures, according to Instagram posts they made on their birthdays.The Capital Chronicle reviewed screenshots of the posts and found them on Instagram to verify that Skarlatos liked them. He defended his Instagram likes in a statement.“To imply that a ‘follow’ or a ‘like’ of social media influencers on Instagram with over 100,000 followers is inappropriate is absurd,” Skarlatos said.Separately, the Associated Press reported Friday that Skarlatos was cleared by the Federal Election Commission of an alleged campaign finance violation relating to a nonprofit he created. Skarlatos used $93,000 left over from his 2020 campaign for Congress to create a nonprofit to advocate for veterans, then transferred $65,000 from the nonprofit to his current campaign after he decided to run again in 2021. The AP, citing a filing from the commission that’s not yet public, reported that the Federal Election Commission approved the transfer to his campaign as a refund.As of the end of the third fundraising quarter on June 30, Skarlatos had raised more than twice as much as Hoyle, $2.57 million to her $1.12 million. District demographics and voting history favors Hoyle, and national forecasters at the Cook Political Report rate the district as “leans Democratic.”is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Oregon Capital Chronicle maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Lynne Terry for questions: . Follow Oregon Capital Chronicle on and .A Texas woman is being described as "mentally ill" after her arrest over threats to a federal judge handling Donald Trump's case, Aileen Cannon. that the threats against the judge are just the most recent in a series by Tiffani Gish.According to the filing, she was arrested after leaving three voice mails for Cannon saying she was "marked for assassination" and that Gish planned to shoot her in front of her family. In the past, Gish has claimed to be a CIA agent named "Evelyn Salt," the name of a spy character played by Angelina Jolie in a 2010 film. She claimed in the calls she's "in charge of nuclear" for the United States and has a "license to kill." IN OTHER NEWS: She said that she was a "hitman" for Donald Trump but at another point she claimed that Trump orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks and he is also marked for assassination, the filing says. U.S. marshals used a call tracing to track Gish's cell phone number, the court filing says. Prosecutors also described her as having a history of "delusional conduct" who has "claimed to be a CIA agent, a Navy SEAL, an Army Ranger, and someone familiar with nuclear weapons or war, all while intermixing threats to public officials such as former President Donald Trump or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton."She has contacted the CIA several times since 2021, the filing also said, with "un-credible, nonsensical information related to nuclear weapons." NBC News said that the Secret Service spoke to Gish's mother in March and that she said Gish suffered from "severe bipolar disorder and is borderline schizophrenic."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Copyright © 2022 Raw Story Media, Inc. PO Box 21050, Washington, D.C. 20009 | | | For corrections or concerns, please email corrections@rawstory.com. | {{ post.roar_specific_data.api_data.analytics }}

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