WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

HONOLULU - United States Attorney Ken Sorenson announced that Dallas Pokornik, 34, of Toronto, Canada, pled guilty yesterday in federal court to wire fraud. After his indictment in October 2025, Pokornik was arrested in Panama and extradited to the United States to face his charges here in the District of Hawaii.

According to court documents, Pokornik, a former flight attendant for a commercial airline in Canada, admitted to falsely posing as a commercial pilot to get hundreds of free flights on three different airlines. During the scheme, which spanned from January 2020 to October 28, 2024, Pokorn...