ST. GEORGE — Instead of boarding his flight, a Georgia man was booked into jail after Transportation Security Administration officers discovered the identification the suspect was using during pre-flight screening was fake.
On Wednesday, officers responded to the St. George Regional Airport on a report that a passenger was attempting to board a plane using a fake ID card shortly after 8 p.m.
According to charging documents filed with the court, St. George Police officers arrived to learn from one of the TSA officers that a suspect, later identified as 20-year-0ld Henry Davis Delisle, of Decatur, Georgia, presented a fraudulent ID card to airport security prior to boarding a flight to Salt Lake City.
The suspect reportedly handed the transportation officer a driver’s license issued out of Georgia, the report states, and it failed to pass the screening process. While speaking to the suspect, the TSA officer noticed a second driver’s license in the suspect’s wallet that displayed the suspect’s name but with a different date of birth.
While speaking to officers, Delisle said he purchased the fraudulent driver’s license while living in Georgia several years ago, adding he used the fake ID to purchase alcohol. He went on to explain that he had forgotten the ID card was in his wallet, he said, until it was brought up by the TSA officer when he handed over the wrong card during the pre-flight screening process.
The suspect was arrested and transported to Purgatory Correctional Facility where he was booked into jail and the following day was charged with one second-degree felony count of producing or transferring any false identification document.
Delisle made an initial appearance on Thursday and is scheduled to be back in court on June 16. He remains in custody.
This report is based on statements from court records, police or other responders and may not contain the full scope of findings. Persons arrested or charged are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law or as otherwise decided by a trier-of-fact.
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