Svetlana Dali, who was arrested for sneaking onto a Delta Airlines flight to France, has been taken into custody again this month while trying to flee the United States into Canada.
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Authorities said the Russian national cut off her court-ordered ankle monitor on Sunday while staying at a residence in Philadelphia. The person hosting her discovered the tampered bracelet and immediately contacted local police. On Monday, ABC News reported that Dali was tracked near Buffalo, New York, where she was found on a Greyhound bus headed for the Canadian border. When asked to produce a passport, she failed to provide one.
A background check revealed an active arrest warrant for bail jumping issued earlier that day in the Eastern District of New York. As previously reported, Dali managed to sneak onto Delta Flight 264, departing from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and heading to Paris’ Charles de Gaulle International Airport. However, French authorities identified her lack of identification and refused her entry into France, sending her back to the United States.
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Upon her return, Dali was apprehended by federal agents. After her initial arrest on December 4, she was fitted with an ankle monitor but remained undeterred in her attempts to evade the law. Dali appeared before a federal magistrate on Tuesday, where she chose to represent herself instead of having a public defender. During the hearing, she claimed she had been a victim of sex trafficking and poisoning based on a previous civil lawsuit.
She remains in legal custody as legal proceedings continue to unfold.
