The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 23, 2007; 10:53 PM

LAS VEGAS -- An intoxicated 28-year-old man apparently broke into a secure area near McCarran International Airport and stole a luggage cart tug car before being arrested early Tuesday.

Joshua Scheuerman is accused by police of breaching two perimiter fences at the Quail Air Center around 4 a.m.

He allegedly stole the tug car and began to drive it on airport property.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the tug damaged the right wing of a G-4 Gulfstream business jet.

Police said he also damaged a fence before rolling the tug into a ditch. He ran and was stopped by Department of Aviation officers.

Scheuerman was booked on charges of grand larceny, malicious destruction of private property, hit and run property damage, and trespassing.