Disruptive Plane Passenger is a “Homeless Lawyer”

Mark McGovern, the man who urinated in the aisle of a United Airlines jet last week—we ranked it the second oddest travel story of the holiday weekend—was charged with creating a disturbance and interfering with a flight crew Monday in a Charlotte, North Carolina court.

If convicted, he could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. According to a story by The Charlotte Observer’s Melissa Manware, during his first appearance in court, McGovern told U.S. Magistrate Judge Carl Horn he is licensed to practice law in Illinois but has been unemployed since moving to Florida in January. He’s scheduled to check into an in-patient alcohol treatment program at a veterans hospital in Tampa, Florida on Friday.

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