A 69-year-old American woman with a history of stowing away on airliners was nabbed last week by authorities while on her way to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, where judges have previously prohibited her from going. It’s the latest chapter in the story of a woman who has for years illegally boarded or tried to board jets at airports across the United States.

“You didn’t just go for a walk, you went to the one place you specifically can’t go… O’Hare Airport,” Cook County Judge David Navarro told Marilyn Hartman before ordering her held in lieu of US $100,000 bail on a charge of escaping from electronic monitoring.

Two weeks ago, a judge rejected a plea deal that would have given her probation for a previous stowaway attempt and on March 16 her electronic monitor was activated when she allegedly left the facility where she was staying, allowing Cook County Sheriff’s deputies to track her and arrest her as she neared the airport on a train.

In October 2019 Hartman, was also arrested at O’Hare just as she was trying to pass the second of two security checkpoints, according to court records.

That arrest violated her probation sentence for sneaking past O’Hare security in January 2018, boarding a jet, and flying to London’s Heathrow Airport without a ticket.

Hartman’s attorney, Assistant Public Defender Andrea Lubelfeld, said the latest incident came after the woman saw herself in a TV news interview.

“She has a mental illness that was triggered by something out of her control, and she reacted not, perhaps, in making the best choice,” Lubelfeld said, according to the Chicago Tribune. “But I would say her mental illness affects her ability to make choices.”