David Hans Arntson, 60, of Newport Beach, Calif., was arrested and answerable Wednesday in U.S. District Cloister in Los Angeles. He is chargeless on $25,000 band until his next cloister actualization Feb. 10.
Arntson piloted two flights June 20, 2014. The first, Flight 573, was from San Diego to Portland, Ore. The second, Flight 580, was from Portland to John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif.
After the additional flight, Arntson's blood-alcohol agreeable was activated at 0.134% and 0.142% in a brace of tests 15 account apart, according to the bent complaint filed by Ashley Strickland, appropriate abettor with the Busline Department’s appointment of ambassador general.
A getting with blood-alcohol agreeable aloft 0.1% is accepted to be beneath the influence, beneath federal law.
“I bet it’s for me,” Arntson allegedly told his co-pilot, Charles Jamillo, afterwards spotting the biologic tester cat-and-mouse at the aboideau at John Wayne Airport, according to Strickland. Crew associates hadn’t apparent Arntson bubbler booze afore or during the flight, and hadn’t smelled it on him, according to the complaint.
Arntson could not explain the breathalyzer results, according to Strickland. Arntson told the investigator he had taken just a brace of sips from a beer at banquet the night afore the flights, and that he had never had issues with booze or substances abuse.
The airline removed Arntson from safety-sensitive duties afterwards getting notified about the analysis results. Arntson, who began aerial for Alaska in 1982 and who became a captain in 1987, after retired from the airline.
“Those in command of commuter jets, or any added anatomy of accessible transportation, accept an obligation to serve the accessible in the safest and a lot of amenable way possible,” U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker said. “We cannot and will not abide those who breach the assurance of their cartage by endangering lives.”
The accuse backpack a best amends of 15 years in prison.
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