CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y.—A man in a pickup truck drove through a roadside gate at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport and crossed a runway before being taken into custody Tuesday morning, according to police.
The unidentified man was apprehended at the western New York airport without incident about 6 minutes after breaching the gate, which was damaged. The incident, which occurred at about 7:30 a.m., did not disrupt air traffic, said Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Police Chief Brian Patterson.
It was not clear why the man breached the gate, but Patterson told reporters at a briefing that “we’ve come to the conclusion that this was intentional.”…