Russian Man Who Flew to Los Angeles Without Passport Charged as Stowaway

A Russian man who apparently flew from Europe to California without a passport is now facing a federal charge as a stowaway. On Nov. 4, Sergey Ochigava arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on a Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen, Denmark, without a passport, according to a criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court Nov. 6. When Mr. Ochigava arrived at immigration, he allegedly told a Customs and Border Protection officer that he left his passport on the plane, but no passport was found. A search of his bags found “Russian identification cards and an Israeli identification card,” as well as “a partial photograph of a passport.”...