An 'intoxicated' JetBlue passenger was pepper-sprayed and arrested after allegedly attacking crew and wrestling with a police officer while trying to board a plane with his 8-year-old son (JBLU)

Brian Pascus/Business Insider via WFTV.com via Orange County Jail

• A Utah man was pepper-sprayed and arrested at Orlando International Airport on Sunday before boarding a JetBlue Airways flight.
• According to multiple reports, 45 year-old Brandon Strong of Layton, Utah allegedly confronted both an airline employee and an airport police officer.  
• In the official arrest affidavit obtained by Business Insider, the JetBlue crew member said she did not give Strong permission to touch her and that she wishes to press charges. 
• In the official arrest affidavit, Officer Hajek writes, "The customer was clearly intoxicated and the alcohol could be smelled from five feet away." 
• Strong was booked on a variety of charges including battery on a law enforcement officer, depriving an officer means of protection and communication, resisting an officer with violence, resisting an officer without violence, child neglect, disorderly intoxication, and battery. 

A Utah man was pepper-sprayed and arrested at Orlando International Airport before boarding a JetBlue Airways flight after allegedly having confronted both an airline employee and an airport police officer, according to multiple reports. 

WFTV 9 ABC reports that on Sunday evening, 45-year-old Brandon Strong of Layton, Utah was waiting to board JetBlue Flight 801 flying from Orlando to Salt Lake City. Data from Flight Aware shows Flight 801 was delayed 2 hours and six minutes. 

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