The incident occurred Tuesday on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Denver.
An FBI affidavit states that a flight attendant asked Grier eight to ten times to put on a face mask, as required by airline policy. Grier allegedly initially ignored the flight attendant and struck her arm three times.
The affidavit goes on to state that passengers later notified another flight attendant that Grier was urinating in his seat with his penis out of his pants. The attendant told him to put it back in his pants and the defendant allegedly replied, “I have to pee.”
When the captain was notified, he was preparing to land after declaring an emergency for an unrelated mechanical issue, according to the affidavit.
Cañon City man accused of refusing to wear mask, urinating aboard flight to Denver
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FILE - A tug pushes an Alaska Airlines airliner away from a gate on Thursday, 11, 2009, at SeaTac Airport in SeaTac, Wash. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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DENVER â A Cañon City man was arrested and charged with a federal count of interfering with a flight crew after he allegedly refused to wear a mask and urinated in his seat while on a flight from Seattle to Denver on Tuesday.
Landon Perry Grier, 24, made his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court of Colorado Thursday on the charge. He was released after the hearing on pre-trial supervision conditions.