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    Bitter former JetBlue employee arrested for calling in fake bomb threat at JFK’s TWA Hotel

    By Larry Celona, Amanda Woods, Steven Vago,

    3 days ago

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    A disgruntled former JetBlue employee was arrested Wednesday for calling in a phony bomb threat and leaving a cellphone with a note that read “explosive device” inside the TWA Hotel at JFK International Airport, according to law enforcement sources.

    Dillon D. Vista — who was canned by the airline during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — allegedly left the cellphone in the lobby of the iconic hotel, sources said.

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    Dillon D. Vista, a former JetBlue employee, allegedly left the cellphone and a threatening note inside JFK’s TWA Hotel. Instagram/@dillonvista

    Moments later, 32-year-old Vista allegedly called the Port Authority Police Department’s JFK desk from an airport parking lot around 11 a.m. and told them a cellphone bomb was inside the hotel, where rooms range from $559 to $1,052 per night, according to its website .

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    A bomb squad unit swooped in and found the threat to be fake, according to sources.

    Port Authority cops arrested Vista at Jamaica Station after scouring surveillance footage, which showed him near the hotel and fleeing via the AirTrain.

    His arrest came years after getting let go from the airline, sources told The Post.

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    “Send this blank e-mail to help get my job back!” he bizarrely wrote on Instagram, showing an email addressed to JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty last year.

    “Bring Dillon back!” he wrote in the subject line.

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    Cops arrested Vista at Jamaica Station after scouring surveillance footage, which showed him near the hotel and fleeing via the AirTrain.  Getty Images

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    Sources said the airline has a restraining order against Vista after he repeatedly showed up to the office and harassed employees following his firing.

    An Instagram post from January 2023 shows the troubled former office worker smiling in front of the airline’s Long Island City headquarters.

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    An Instagram post shows the troubled former officer worker smiling in front of JetBlue’s Long Island City headquarters.  Instagram/@dillonvista

    “Happy Birthday, @jetblue!” he wrote underneath the photo.

    His last known address is a Brooklyn homeless shelter, according to sources.

    JetBlue did not immediately return a request for comment.

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