United Pilot Paid $300K after Indecent Exposure Arrest
Captain Collins was the UA IAD LEC Chair (head pilot union representative for the United Airlines Dulles base) when he was arrested. He was a front runner to be the new head of ALPA National.
Pilot arrested for being naked at his hotel room window paid $300,000 by city of Denver
"Though the city of Denver may deny liability, it has now paid a price for what happened on Sept. 20, 2018," the man's attorney said.
Nov. 12, 2019, 1:49 PM EST / Updated Nov. 12, 2019, 6:05 PM EST By Janelle Griffith
The city of Denver has agreed to pay $300,000 to a United Airlines pilot who was arrested on an indecent exposure charge that was later dismissed by a judge.
Andrew Collins' attorney, Craig Silverman, announced the settlement on Monday.Collins, who served in the United States Air Force, was arrested on Sept. 20, 2018 by Denver police and accused of indecent exposure for standing naked in front of his 10th-floor hotel window overlooking the Denver International Airport terminal. Collins spent days in the Denver city jail after his arrest.
Ryan Luby, a spokesman for the City Attorney's Office, said the $300,000 payment comes from an insurance policy Denver has at the airport.
"We agreed on that figure in mediation on Friday," Luby told NBC News.
NBC News was referred by the Denver Police Department to a spokeswoman for Denver International Airport, who said the settlement was paid as part of the airport’s liability insurance because the incident took place on its property. She declined to comment further.
Silverman told NBC News Tuesday his client was unaware he could be seen when he opened the curtains of his hotel room in the late morning that September day.
Collins, of Leesburg, Virginia, was naked and about to shower when he received a phone call, according to Silverman.
"Captain Collins walked around his room and took in the view as he was absorbed in the 24-minute phone call," Silverman wrote in a notice of claim dated March 15, 2019.
After the call ended, Collins was going to shower when he was alarmed by a Denver police officer loudly banging on his door and ordering him to open it. The officer told Collins he would enter with or without permission, the notice of claim states.
Photo credit: Denver Police Department
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