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CEDAR CITY — A commercial airline pilot was extradited to Utah Tuesday, after police say he had been impersonating a former flight attendant, posting intimate photos of her and, on one occasion, sending a stranger to her workplace to solicit sex.
Andrew Hill, 36, a pilot for United Airlines, was booked into the Iron County jail at around 1 a.m., and charged with two counts of distribution of pornography, a third-degree felony; stalking, online impersonation, and distribution of an intimate image, class A misdemeanors; as well as electronic communication harassment, a class B misdemeanor.
In January, a woman filed a complaint with Cedar City police saying her ex-boyfriend began creating fake online accounts in her name and distributing nude images she had sent him before she broke things off with him a decade earlier, according to court documents.
Hill messaged other men using these profiles, telling them she "has fantasies of being raped," and prompting strangers to solicit her for sex, charging documents say. Police say they traced one of these profiles back to an account belonging to Hill, and located the images on the man's cloud accounts.
After gathering evidence to file charges, a warrant for Hill's arrest was filed June 6. In the previous two weeks, three men had approached the woman for sex, according to the warrant, with one showing up at her work. When officers and the woman called Hill, the warrant said he "demonstrated a cavalier attitude," and "mockingly laughed at the victim when confronted and indicated that she could not touch him."
Hill was taken into custody at the San Francisco International Airport by two Cedar City police detectives, according to St. George News, who then flew with him back to Utah.
He is being held without bail, and his next court date is scheduled for July 8 in 5th District Court.
