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Three people arrested at Con Flight 3407 Buffalo crash site

by Amy Judd | February 14, 2009 at 04:39 pm

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Three people have been arrested at the scene of the Continental Express Flight 3407 plane crash in Buffalo.

Three people arrested at scene of Buffalo plane crash; one was found hiding inside the restricted area while videotaping the crash site

The three people were trying to gain access to the crash site and nineteen year-old Thomas Woodman was the man hiding with the video camera. He has been detained, as has sixty-three year-old Paul R. Brenton who entered the site and also threatened a police officer.

The third man, fifty-one year-old Donald Krawczyk was arrested at one of the roadblocks for drunk driving.

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politisite

at 16:57 on February 14th, 2009

Amy Once they tape the perimeter off as a crime scene one can be arrested for obstruction due to possible contamination of the search area.

Amy Judd

at 20:32 on February 14th, 2009

I didn't know that - thanks

Chicholino (not verified)

at 19:30 on February 14th, 2009

Why do we need to know this?!

Sharyn Brunner

at 15:19 on February 15th, 2009

Why? To give people a heads up about getting footage and trespassing.

Good story Amy.

Tom Woodman (not verified)

at 15:11 on July 28th, 2009

Tom Woodman here -- I'm the one who was caught trespassing with my Canon XL1-S camera at the scene. He didn't arrest me, he just gave me a trespass ticket, but the courts were treating me as if I was the one who shot down the plane, so they were trying to charge me with a felony. It went all the way up to Criminal Trespass. Now I get to work 60 hours at Clarence Animal Control, which I admit is pretty fun considering I'm an animal lover. I didn't mean to cause any harm, the thing just crashed behind my house and I love filming.

Tom Woodman (not verified)

at 15:15 on July 28th, 2009

Also, I would have been able to get away but I was so close to the burning tail fin, that I was forced to get on my feet and quickly run back after getting some really nice footage. I just couldn't breath. I really wished that I would have swapped the tape before getting nabbed because it was some serious good high definition footage of absolutely everything, closer than the firefighters got. A guy from ABC news was waiting for me to get back so he could air my raw footage. I shouldn't have gotten that close, I knew I should have cut my losses and came back with some still seriously good footage but, as usual, I pushed my luck.