LI man arrested, accused of sneaking into pope motorcade
He supposedly wanted to give the pope his business card and talk to him and other world leaders about changing the world.
He admitted helping a woman to her seat in an effort to get closer to the pope, who was then canonizing Spanish missionary Junipero Serra, according to the source.
A former New York City firefighter in a black SUV breached security at John F. Kennedy worldwide Airport Saturday and joined a motorcade to the spot on the tarmac where the plane transporting Pope Francis had been parked.
“They are making a mountain out of molehill”, Bookstein said. “I think it’s had a traumatic effect on him”, attorney Scott Bookstein told the Daily News.
The revelation emerged as Francis was already back safely in the Vatican after his first-ever tour of the US, which included a almost 40-hour visit to New York City.
Newsday reports (http://nwsdy.li/1Vo7CGo ) 39-year-old Chris Cannella, of North Babylon, was arraigned Monday in Queens on charges including impersonating a police or a federal law enforcement officer.
However he came up short, as a Port Authority police officer activated a barrier to prevent him from getting back out of the tarmac.
“You see this? I can hurt you really bad with this, ” Cannella alleged sneered.
At around 6 p.m., Cannella, driving a Chevy Tahoe, allegedly followed one motorcade that also included NYPD, Secret Service and Port Authority police onto airport grounds.
The pope had flown out of JFK that morning and was already in Philadelphia by the time the incident unfolded.
It turns out the clueless Cannella was tailing the president of Turkmenistan.
At one point, according to the complaint, he slowed down and flashed “a silver object to the security guard and then (drove) through the checkpoint”.
Thinking he might be in luck this time, Cannella snuck behind the last vehicle in that convoy and tried to drive through another checkpoint along with the rest of the security detail around 7:30 p.m., sources said.
This line of vehicles was carrying Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and was reportedly heading to the aiport. Authorities searching Cannella’s auto also recovered marijuana and a 9mm magazine containing five hollow-point rounds.
There were 88 items in the package and Florio was cleared after police determined he posed no threat to the Pope.
Florio had arranged to have the items shipped to the Israeli owner of the W. 34th St. apartment, who called cops when he opened up the FedEx package and saw what was inside, they said.