BENNINGTON (AP) – A man is accused of stalking woman by using his small plane, which he had been flying out of a southern Vermont airport in the United States.
Michael Arnold, 65, made an initial appearance in court in Bennington, Vermont.
He was arrested as he was driving into the William H Morse State Airport in town. Police said his single-engine Cessna 180 was at the airport and he had been flying from there.
Arnold was charged with aggravated stalking, impeding, false information to a police officer, and resisting arrest, Bennington Police Chief Paul Doucette said in a news release. He posted USD5,000 bail. “Arnold, of Manchester, New Hampshire, had been served with a temporary order of protection from a court in Saratoga, New York, in May. A specific condition of that order was that he cease and desist from flying any and all aircraft while the order remains in effect,” Doucette said.
Police were notified by the FBI in Albany that New York authorities had been investigating Arnold on suspicion of stalking the woman in Schuylerville, for several years, Doucette said.
Schuylerville is about 48 kilometres northwest of the Bennington airport.
