.  . . bond set at US $1m
NBC (Miami)/ NEW YORK POST – A bond of US$1 million was set in court yesterday morning for an American Eagle flight attendant accused of stealing another man’s identity to fly around the world.
Guyanese-born Jophan Porter, 38, was charged with six counts of identity fraud Friday and is currently in Miami-Dade County jail. He also faces multiple counts of possessing stolen or fraudulent identification and forgery.
According to a New York Post article, in a colossal failure of 9/11 security measures, Porter an illegal immigrant and former Bronx resident, used the stolen ID of a Bronx man with an arrest record to get hired as an airline flight attendant, and flew several trips as a trainee before he was busted on Friday.
He was arrested at Miami International Airport just after he had returned from a personal trip to London on an American Airlines flight.
Besides getting a job at American Eagle, Porter used the stolen ID to obtain a US passport, a US Department of Transportation ID card and at least three Florida driver’s licenses, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
The fake flight attendant was caught after ID-theft victim Anthony Frair of The Bronx was denied food stamps because government records matched him to the airline job.
A law-enforcement source confirmed that Frair, 40, has an arrest record. Public records show a man with his name and age was busted in Florida in 2008 on domestic-assault charges.
It’s unclear how long Porter used Frair’s identity, sources said. American Eagle hired him in March, and he worked from the airline’s Miami base, said company spokesman Tim Smith.
Smith and spokespersons for several federal agencies couldn’t explain how Porter cleared the security checks needed to become a flight attendant — or why the airline didn’t realize the ID he had stolen belonged to a criminal suspect.
Smith couldn’t say whether the airline even did a Google search, which would have uncovered Frair’s arrest in Florida.