JEM60
must be another one(!!!), the one I know works for NATS, is in his late 20s now and got picked up by the FBI for loitering around a couple of American airports a few months after 9/11.
He was picked up once and let go, then he did it again the same weekend. His girlfriend of the time (who had gone off to do her own things whilst he spotted) had to vouch for him and get him sprung.
He had only just started training in ATC at the time, but you'd have still thought he would have had more sense.
I think she still regrets ever having vouched for him. Fortunately she has come to her senses and is no longer with him!