NEW YORK — A man accused of punching a JetBlue flight attendant during a drunken tirade on a New York City-bound flight has been released on $200,000 bail.
Antonio Ynoa was arrested early Sunday on federal assault charges. He appeared briefly Monday at a Brooklyn courthouse.
The criminal complaint says Ynoa grew belligerent while drinking straight from a bottle on a JetBlue flight en route from the Dominican Republic to Kennedy International Airport.
The complaint alleges that when the flight attendant confronted him, Ynoa hit him three times in the face and tried to head-butt him. An off-duty NYPD officer helped subdue Ynoa before the plane landed.
Ynoa's family says he has mood swings because of brain damage caused by a 2005 traffic accident involving a police car in Brooklyn.
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