Pilot accused of flying from Vermont to harass New York woman

The police reported that A man has been arrested for piloting a small plane from a Vermont airport to harass a woman in New York.

Michael Arnold, 65, who was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday in Bennington, Vermont, was arrested Tuesday while driving to the city’s William H. Morse State Airport.

Police said his single-engine Cessna 180 plane was at the airport and that he had been flying from there.

Arnold, of Manchester, New Hampshire, had received a temporary protective order from a court in Saratoga, New York, in May.

A specific condition of that order was that he “cease and desist from flying any and all aircraft while the order remains in effect,” Bennington Police Chief Paul Doucette said in a news release reviewed by The Associated Press. .

The FBI had notified police in Albany that New York authorities were investigating Arnold on suspicion that he had stalked a woman in Schuylerville for several years.Doucette said.

Schuylerville is about 30 miles from Bennington Airport.

“Officers were able to determine that Arnold was, in fact, flying his plane out of William H. Morse State Airport and was last seen flying west toward New York several days earlier,” Doucette said.

Arnold was charged Tuesday with aggravated harassment, impeding, false information to a police officer and resisting arrest, Doucette said. He posted bail of $5,000 to be released.

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