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Selma Blair In-Flight Altercation Leaves Two with Bite Marks, Bloody Nose | Crime Alert 10.13.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sydney Silvani. A violent confrontation at 30,000 feet leaves
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  Speaker 2: two people injured and a Hollywood actress in custody. According
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  Speaker 2: to 911 dispatch audio, actress Selma Blair allegedly attacked a
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  Speaker 2: flight attendant and a fellow passenger aboard an October 11th
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  Speaker 2: Delta Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York's John F.
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy International Airport, leaving victims with a bloody nose and
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  Speaker 2: bite marks. As the flight approached New York, emergency dispatches
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  Speaker 2: revealed the pilot urgently requested police and medical personnel to
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  Speaker 2: meet the aircraft directly at the gate, reporting that the
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  Speaker 2: cabin disturbance had turned violent.
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  Speaker 1: We'd like to have some medical personnel at the gate
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of the FAs involved in the passenger incident.
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  Speaker 1: They just need to get a couple things looked at. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I will pass that along. Just get an estimated station
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  Speaker 1: count for me, please. How many ambulances will need? No ambulances,
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  Speaker 1: just some medical personnel available should be fine. Sounds like
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  Speaker 1: there were two, yeah, one flight attendant and one passenger
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  Speaker 1: that sustained some minor injuries. A bloody nose as well
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  Speaker 1: as some bite marks as well. So I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we need an ambulance or anything like that, but we
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  Speaker 1: just need to get some medical personnel at the gate
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  Speaker 1: to look at their injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Moments later, the pilot radioed back to emergency dispatchers with
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  Speaker 2: an alarming update, warning first responders that the disruptive passenger
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  Speaker 2: had also injured herself during the altercation. Delta 938 Heavy,
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  Speaker 2: we do have paramedics approaching the.
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  Speaker 1: Gate right now and there are law enforcement already at
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  Speaker 1: the gate. And then one additional add-on, it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: the disruptive passenger also.
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  Speaker 2: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed
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  Speaker 2: Blair was physically abusive aboard the flight. Police took the
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  Speaker 2: actress into custody and transported her to a hospital, while
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  Speaker 2: an injured flight attendant was also hospitalized. Blair, famous for
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  Speaker 2: cruel intentions, legally blonde, and hellboy, was previously arrested following
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  Speaker 2: an outburst on an international flight in 2016, which she
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  Speaker 2: attributed to mixing alcohol with medication and called a big mistake.
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  Speaker 2: Blair publicly disclosed in 2018 that she is living with
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  Speaker 2: multiple sclerosis. More crime and justice news after this. A
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  Speaker 2: weekend trip from prison to the hospital marks the latest
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  Speaker 2: blow for Sean Diddy Combs. Amid reports of high living
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  Speaker 2: indulgences and contraband behind bars at FCI Fort Dix, the
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  Speaker 2: Bad Boy Records founder has seen his release date pushed
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  Speaker 2: back by more than 40 days. Combs is now scheduled
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  Speaker 2: to walk out of the New Jersey Minimum Security Facility
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  Speaker 2: on March 2, 2028, after his previous release date of
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  Speaker 2: January 21 was delayed. His release date has fluctuated since
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  Speaker 2: Combs was sentenced in September 2025 to a 50-month prison
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  Speaker 2: term after a New York jury convicted him of two
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  Speaker 2: counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. Bureau of Prison
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  Speaker 2: sources warn Combs faced serious consequences for sneaking a smartphone
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  Speaker 2: into Fort Dix, obtaining fine booze, and paying a staff
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  Speaker 2: of fellow inmates, landing him in solitary confinement. Then on
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  Speaker 2: October 10th, Combs was rushed to a nearby hospital with
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  Speaker 2: a head injury, as first reported by TMZ, before returning
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  Speaker 2: to Fort Dix before dawn Sunday. The Bureau of Prisons
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  Speaker 2: declined to comment on his medical condition, citing safety and
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  Speaker 2: security policies. Spokesperson Judah Engelmeyer stated representatives are confirming the
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  Speaker 2: circumstances and prioritizing Combs' health. While acquitted two years ago
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  Speaker 2: of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking in a Manhattan federal
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  Speaker 2: trial detailing Cassie Ventura beatings, exploding cars, drug binges, and freak-offs,
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  Speaker 2: the 56-year-old Combs still faces multiple civil suits and a
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  Speaker 2: potential Los Angeles sexual battery indictment. In Boston, witness testimony
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  Speaker 2: begins on October 13th at the John J. Moakley Courthouse
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  Speaker 2: in the federal murder trial of former police officer Matthew Farwell.
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  Speaker 2: Sandra Birchmore dreamed of becoming a police officer when she
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  Speaker 2: enrolled in the Stoughton Police Explorers program at 13, where
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  Speaker 2: she met Farwell. According to detention affidavits, Farwell used his
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  Speaker 2: authority to groom Birchmore and began raping her when she
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  Speaker 2: turned 15, continuing the exploitation into her adulthood. Prosecutors say
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  Speaker 2: the relationship ended on February 1, 2021, when Farwell arrived
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  Speaker 2: in a mask, strangled his pregnant mistress, and staged the
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  Speaker 2: scene to look like a suicide. The plan initially worked,
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  Speaker 2: with examiners finding no foul play. But in September 2024,
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  Speaker 2: federal authorities declared her death a homicide and arrested Farwell,
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  Speaker 2: who allegedly began raping Birchmore a month before his wedding
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  Speaker 2: and killed her hours before his wife gave birth to
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  Speaker 2: their third child. DNA tests in 2025 revealed Farwell was
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  Speaker 2: not the father of Birchmore's unborn child. Prior to criminal charges,
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  Speaker 2: Birchmore's aunt filed a wrongful death suit alleging three program
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  Speaker 2: instructors exploited the teen, who was orphaned at 18 following
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  Speaker 2: the death of her chronically ill single mother. Farwell's twin brother, William,
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  Speaker 2: also an officer, admitted to a two-year sexual relationship with
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  Speaker 2: Birchmore and is named on the witness list alongside Farwell's wife, Angela.
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  Speaker 2: Farwell pleaded not guilty, maintains Birchmore committed suicide, and faces
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  Speaker 2: life imprisonment in a trial expected to last a month.
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  Speaker 2: For more crime and justice news, be sure to join
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sydney Silvani.