The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) confirmed Tuesday that an individual was taken into police custody after reports of an incident in the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) on March 27.
Airports Authority police arrested Damon Marsalis Gaines, 39, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and charged him with assault and battery, MWAA spokesperson James Johnson told NTD, sister media of The Epoch Times, in an email.
Emily McGee, also a spokesperson for MWAA, said Gaines is not an employee of MWAA.
“On Thursday night, he was taken to the Arlington (County) Detention Center and released in a magistrate summons for assault and battery,” McGee told NTD in an April 1 email….