Jury convicts pilot of lying on FAA medical applications

Ojo, 36, holds an airline transport pilot certificate, according to FAA records. He was indicted in March, and arrested in Georgia within days, then released on $10,000 bond pending trial, according to federal court records.

Prosecutors presented evidence that Ojo did not disclose to the FAA that he had pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft charges in Kentucky on February 8, 2023. Those charges were related to theft of passenger luggage from baggage carousels at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, according to federal prosecutors. Ojo did not disclose that conviction, as required, on first class medical certificate applications submitted in March 2023 and March 2024.

Immediately following the jury’s verdict, Judge Jodi W. Dishman ordered Ojo detained pending sentencing. He faces up to five years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 for each of the two charges of which he was convicted.