Marilyn Jean Hartman boarded a plane in Minnesota and arrived in Florida on Sunday, she told authorities. There, at Jacksonville International Airport, she claimed to have hopped on a transportation van to an island resort.
That’s where the 63-year-old serial stowaway was arrested Monday, according to a Nassau County Sheriff’s Office arrest report. Because, as it turns out, Hartman didn’t have a reservation at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort … or her alleged plane ticket, for that matter.
Hartman checked in to the resort using the name of another guest and was shown to a villa, according to the arrest report. The hotel realized its mistake when the real guest tried to check in.
Hartman then disappeared, the report states.
She was located the next day in a room that was under renovation and was held by security until authorities arrived.
If Hartman’s name sounds familiar, that’s because she’s done this before. A lot.
A Nassau County Sheriff’s Office news release refers to Hartman as “the infamous ‘Serial Stowaway,’ ” with cause.
Here’s a tiny sample of her headlines from the past year:
• “Woman busted at SFO after third stowaway try”
• “San Francisco woman keeps trying to get to Hawaii”
• “SFO stowaway Marilyn Hartman busted yet again”
• “After 3 tries, Marilyn Jean Hartman, 62, flies Southwest Airlines without ticket”
• “Serial stowaway, 62, arrested at Phoenix airport”
This time, Hartman faces charges of fraud/impersonation, defrauding an innkeeper and trespassing, according to the news release. Bond has been set at $55,006, and she’s due in court in early March.
The arrest report says Hartman is homeless.
Last year, according to the San Jose Mercury News, she “unsuccessfully tried seven times to stow away on a passenger plane at San Francisco International Airport, where she once made it all the way onto a plane bound for Hawaii before she was noticed. She was arrested three times during a span of six days in February 2014 for attempting to board Hawaii-bound flights at SFO.”
In May, following her arrests at SFO, Hartman was determined to be suffering from a “major mental illness” and deemed a suitable candidate for a residential mental health program. She was sentenced to two years supervised probation and was to be under strict supervision in the program for two years.
She was transferred immediately to the Pathways Program at the Redwood House Mental Health Facility from her May 26 sentencing. But after just a week, she walked out of the unlocked Pathways facility.
Despite repeated orders to stay off the SFO property unless she had a ticket to fly, Hartman was arrested in mid-July on her seventh failed attempt.
In August, Hartman flew without a ticket from San Jose to Los Angeles, where she was again arrested.
“Despite orders not to return to LAX,” the Mercury News noted, “Hartman went back the next day and was arrested. She was sentenced to 177 days in jail but was released three days later because of overcrowding.
“About two weeks later she was arrested at an airport in Phoenix.”
You can read the arrest report from this latest incident, in Florida, below:
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[This post has been updated.]
