Two suspects were arrested and charged with assault in separate incidents at Logan International Airport Saturday, State Police said, while a brief security scare was touched off when a son of former baseball player Curt Schilling left a toy grenade in his carry-on luggage.
At around noon, a woman using the ladies' restroom in Terminal C reported that a naked man had fallen through the ceiling into the stall area before running out of the bathroom, State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said.
The man, later identified as a 26-year-old Cameron Shenk of Boston, then assaulted an elderly man he encountered upon fleeing from the restroom, according to Procopio.
"He assaulted the elderly man, bit the man on the ear causing laceration to ear, and then began choking the man with [the elderly man's] own cane," Procopio said.
After a brief struggle with troopers, Shenk was taken into State Police custody. Charges against him include attempted murder, assault and battery on a police officer, assault and battery on a person over 60, and a lewd and lascivious act, Procopio said.
The 84-year-old victim was taken to a hospital for treatment of his ear injuries, and Shenk was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital for injuries suffered when he fell through the ceiling, Procopio said. One trooper received a minor injury while arresting Shenk, Procopio said.
State Police investigation indicates that Shenk had snuck into the woman's bathroom just before noon, taken his clothes off in one of the stalls, and climbed into the crawl space above the restroom before crashing through the ceiling, according to Procopio.
Just a few minutes before, motorists outside Terminal A saw a young woman passenger screaming from inside a vehicle that had just pulled up at the Delta Air Lines entrance, Procopio said. The woman had kicked out one of the car's windows in distress, Procopio said.
Troopers followed the car into Terminal B at the United Airlines entrance, where a cruiser pulled in front of the car, allowing the woman to leave the vehicle, according to Procopio. The victim, later identified as a 21-year-old Woburn resident, said the driver of the vehicle had punched her in the face after she refused to give him money and would not let her out of the car.
The driver, 52-year-old Anton Hilton of Roxbury, was arrested and charged with assault and battery and kidnapping.
The victim is a friend of the driver's daughter and had been staying with him, said Procopio, who added that the woman declined medical attention for injuries sustained during the incident.
Shenk and Hilton will appear in East Boston District Court as early as Monday, according to Procopio.
The incident with Schilling was made public in a series of tweets that began at 7:26 a.m.: "Start your day with this. Going through airport security. Son says "DAD! I think I [left a] fake grenade in my bag."
Schilling, who did not say which of his sons was involved, later tweeted: "15 TSA agents are on their walkie talkies. Police show up and everyone in line is shooed 50 yards away. Police, TSA could not...have been cooler once they realized what was happening."
Jennifer Mehigan, assistant director of media relations for the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Logan, confirmed that the incident had occurred on Saturday.
She provided no further details, saying only, "The safety and security of the people that use our facilities as well as our employees is our top priority."
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