{"id":94608850,"date":"2011-06-27T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/man-busted-after-impersonating-soldier-to-receive-first-class-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T15:17:00","slug":"man-busted-after-impersonating-soldier-to-receive-first-class-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/man-busted-after-impersonating-soldier-to-receive-first-class-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Busted after Impersonating Soldier to Receive First Class Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Rock Diaz in his phony army fatigues <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA man who allegedly posed as a United States soldier in order to receive First Class treatment on a recent American Airlines flight was busted after he landed at New York&rsquo;s JFK Airport.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRock Diaz, a 22-year-old male from Long Island, New York, was sporting camouflage fatigues, dog tags, and a military-style haircut when he was given a free upgrade to First Class by the airline&rsquo;s cabin crew, a practice sometimes granted to US military personnel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDiaz was busted upon landing, however, when a keen-eyed JFK customs agent became suspicious of his uniform.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDiaz, who speaks Spanish, told airport officials that he didn&rsquo;t ask for an upgrade and that any confusion was based on a language barrier. He is being charged with second-degree impersonation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/news\/2011\/06\/27\/li-man-rock-diaz-busted-pretending-to-be-soldier-for-first-class-upgrade\/?test=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\">FOX News Latino<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rock Diaz in his phony army fatigues &nbsp; A man who allegedly posed as a United States soldier in order to receive First Class treatment on a recent American Airlines flight was busted after he landed at New York&rsquo;s JFK Airport. &nbsp; Rock Diaz, a 22-year-old male from Long Island, New York, was sporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}