Plane threat suspect pleads not guilty at arraignment

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Derek Stansberry, the former military intelligence specialist accused of making bomb threats while aboard a trans-Atlantic flight that was diverted to Bangor last April, entered not guilty pleas to all charges at U.S. District Court in Bangor Wednesday afternoon.

Stansberry is charged with one count of interference with a flight crew and one count of giving false information and making threats.   Stansberry could face up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 dollar fine for the interference with a flight crew charge and up to five years and a $250,000 dollar fine for the false information and threats charge. 

Stansberry will remain free on 20 thousand dollars bail under a number of conditions.  He had to surrender his passport, be confined to home detention, consent to electric monitoring, receive counseling, and not possess firearms or destructive devices.  His bail conditions were amended during Wednesdays arraignment to allow him to return to his home in Riverview Florida.  Stansberry had been staying with his girlfriends family in Pennsylvannia so it would be easier for him to travel Maine to attend court proceedings.

The case is on the trial list for September 7.  Stansberry is expected to arrive return to Florida on Tuesday.