MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO STABBING PASSENGER DURING FLIGHT TO LAS VEGAS

LUBBOCK, Texas, July 6 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration issued the following press release:

LAS VEGAS - A man granted legal permanent resident status in 2018 from Mexico pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stabbing another passenger on a flight from Seattle, Washington, to Las Vegas, Nevada.

According to court documents and statements made in court, on January 24, 2024, Julio Alvarez Lopez, punched, hit, and stabbed another passenger on a flight with a dangerous homemade weapon, consisting of three pens bound together with hair bands. The victim suffered injuries to the body and eye area, requiring stitches. After Lopez stopped stabbing the victim, he began walking towards the front of the airc...