Man fined $52 for causing shutdown at Phoenix airport terminal

PHOENIX — The man whose Sunday parking blunder at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport spurred a paralyzing, hours-long, security-induced shutdown has been fined $52— a financial punch on par with paying for airport parking during a weekend getaway. 

Neither the 29-year-old man who drove the rental car nor his 19-year-old female passenger have been publicly identified. The man was issued a civil parking ticket for “prohibited parking per sign or red curb,” a Phoenix City Code, police said Monday. 

It carries with it a $52 fine. 

That fine is aside from the $75 towing fee he must also pay.  

“No other charges are being sought at this time,” Phoenix police said.

Police declined to offer many new details about the airport mayhem the day after roughly 300 flights were delayed, dozens were canceled and travelers were stopped in their tracks in Phoenix, left waiting for their connectors thousands of miles away. 

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