Ex-CHP captain slapped a flight attendant's butt, exposed himself on flight, prosecutors say

[ad_1] A former California Freeway Patrol captain was charged with sexually abusing a flight attendant whereas touring to Los Angeles from Florida final month, prosecutors introduced Thursday.

Prosecutors allege that Dennis Wally Woodbury, 49, downed a bottle of prosecco in the course of the April 13 flight, slapped a male flight attendant’s butt and yelled, “I like you,” and confirmed one other male flight attendant a pornographic image, in accordance with the legal grievance.

Woodbury, of Azusa, is charged with a felony rely of abusive sexual contact throughout the particular maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the U.S. If convicted, he faces a most sentence of two years in federal jail.

Woodbury’s lawyer, Annick Jordan, declined to touch upon the case. Woodbury, who's out of custody on bond, couldn't instantly be reached for remark. It's unclear when Woodbury stopped working for the CHP. The U.S. lawyer’s workplace wrote in a information launch that he had “been dismissed from state service.”

Woodbury was touring in Jet Blue’s enterprise class part from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Los Angeles Worldwide Airport when the alleged abuse occurred, in accordance with the legal grievance.

Earlier than the flight left the gate, Woodbury allegedly confirmed a flight attendant an image of a canine with a blurred picture of two males having intercourse within the background. The person responded, “Oh my God,” and Woodbury laughed and mentioned, “I used to be questioning how lengthy it will take you,” prosecutors wrote within the legal grievance.

Woodbury then urged the 2 males go on a cruise collectively.

“When [the attendant] demonstrated how the airplane’s oxygen masks labored, he noticed Woodbury him and made a hand pumping movement,” the grievance states.

When a distinct flight attendant was amassing meal trays, Woodbury used his left hand to slap the attendant’s buttocks and yell that he “liked him,” in accordance with the grievance.

Later within the flight, the grievance alleges, Woodbury pulled down his pants to show his penis to the primary flight attendant, who was standing on the entrance of the airplane.

Prosecutors allege that Woodbury requested for extra wine and uncovered himself a second time after he was instructed he may have solely a nonalcoholic beverage.

Woodbury returned to his seat and slept for the remainder of the flight. As he was escorted off the airplane by LAX law enforcement officials, he shouted to one of many flight attendants, “That is all of your fault since you didn’t go to the lavatory with me,” in accordance with the legal grievance.

Woodbury later instructed police that the flight attendant solicited him to go to the lavatory, however he declined, in accordance with the courtroom document.