Prosecutors: Man Watching Porn on Plane Touched Himself

By Deb Stanley
Denverchannel
September 10, 2012

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DENVER -- Officers arrested a man at Denver International Airport this weekend after another passenger said she saw the man watch pornography on a flight and touch himself.

The U.S. Attorney's office said Daniel Michael Drinan, 63, of Reno, Nevada, was arrested Saturday night on suspicion of lewd, indecent or obscene acts in public aboard an aircraft.

Prosecutors said Drinan was on Southwest flight 1998 from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Denver International Airport when he connected his laptop computer to the airline's WiFi service, and began to view pornography.

A woman seated nearby notice the defendant touching himself to the pornography, prosecutors said.

"She waited, hoping he would stop, but ultimately had to alert a flight attendant," according to a news released from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

A flight attendant reported asked Drinan to "put his pants back together."

That flight attendant said the defendant's genitalia was totally exposed, prosecutors said.