Serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman arrested again

Chicago police say 64-year-old Marilyn Hartman was arrested on Wednesday at an airport bus shuttle centre. She’s scheduled to appear on Thursday in bond court.

Hartman has tried numerous times in recent years to board planes without a ticket, succeeding at least once by flying from San Jose, Califoia, to Los Angeles in August 2014.

This February 17 photo shows 64-year-old Marilyn Hartman, a so-called serial stowaway who was arrested again Wednesday at Chicago's O'Hare Inteational Airport

Police say she is a ‘”habitual trespasser and stowaway in violation of her court-ordered probation.”

Hartman was arrested twice in two days last summer at O’Hare and Chicago’s Midway Inteational Airport. She also has airport-related arrests in Arizona.

Hartman was released on probation to a Chicago nursing home in December, and ordered to avoid airports and Chicago’s Union Station.

Before her arrests in the summer of 2014, Hartman walked free after sneaking onto a flight from Minnesota to Florida and posing as a guest checking in for a Biggest Loser weight-loss program.

The court deemed Hartman, who has often said she is homeless and feels more comfortable in airports than streets, mentally unstable.

She has blamed her penchant for sneaking onto planes on an unrecognised medical condition she calls “whistleblower trauma syndrome”.

Hartman is now charged with felony probation violation and misdemeanour criminal trespass.