The stranded jet skier who walked undetected on to JFK runways insisted insisted he didn’t sneak sneak in — he wanted to get caught!
Daniel Casillo, 31, who inadvertently showed up JFK’s multi-million-dollar, not-so-effective security system, said he had no ill intent on Aug. 10 when his jet ski broke in Jamaica Bay, within eyesight of America’s sixth’s busiest airport.
The Post was first to report about this shocking security break down.
Casillo swam three miles in the pitch dark, with only JFK’s control tower as his point of reference. Casillo was freezing and needed help when he came up to JFK’s barbed-wire, chain link fence.
He climbed over it, with every intention to be “found.”
“The whole intention to the whole time was to make myself seen,” Casillo told ABC News, in an interview aired today. “I just made a decision: I’m going to have to get found.”
Casillo was charged with third-degree criminal trespassing and trespassing. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 2 to trespassing, a violation, and was sentenced to a conditional discharge.
Casillo might never have been “found,” or caught, had he not come up to a Delta Airlines cargo employee.
“I figured I was going to be on cameras, that somebody’s going to pick me up, maybe a helicopter’s going to come, or a police car, something,” he said. “Nothing happened — to the point where I had to walk up to a cargo worker.”
Casillo said airport officials have taken him back to JFK twice, to recreate the steps he took on his odd fourney.
“I didn’t mean to do this,” he said. “But I exposed something really important and that’s a flaw in security.”