Sources: Cops Arrest Suspect in Newark Airport Breach

Haisong Jiang, 28, of Piscataway, N.J., was arrested around 7:30 p.m., according to the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, and officials plan to charge him with "defiant trespass" over the Jan. 3 incident.

"The charges were determined in coordination with the Essex County Prosecutor's Office and federal officials," according to the agency's written statement.

Jiang will not face federal charges over the incident, sources said.

After Port Authority police arrested Jiang at his home, he told detectives he was the person shown in a video of the security breach, sources added.

Detectives tracked down Jiang by culling through a list of possible suspects.

Video surveillance footage released Thursday suggested that the man who caused the security breach intentionally walked through an exit into a secure area of the airport to hug a woman. The maneuver caused hours of delays for thousands of people.

The video, released by the office of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., showed an unidentified man standing for several minutes near Checkpoint 1 in the Newark airport's Terminal C, apparently waiting for a woman at around 5:20 p.m. The Transportation Security Administration officer assigned to the post appeared to be aware of the man's presence, and at one point, the officer instructed the man to move back.

A few minutes later, however, the TSA guard inexplicably got up from his podium and walked away for about one minute. That's all the time it took for the man to sneak through the exit lane, embrace the woman and walk off into the secure concourse.