Catch her if you can? ‘Serial stowaway’ arrested in Florida

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She has a history of trying to board planes without a ticket.

In fact, she was arrested three times in August 2014.

So it should be no surprise that “serial stowaway” Marilyn Jean Hartman has been arrested once more for making her way onto a flight from Minneapolis to Florida without a ticket.

Hartman, 63, was caught after she checked into another guest’s room at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort — and then that guest arrived.

Security found Hartman hiding out in a room that was under renovation.

Hartman has been charged with fraud by impersonation, defrauding an innkeeper and trespassing.

The Transportation Security Administration is currently investigating how she did it, despite beefed-up security at the airport.

In August, Hartman was given a warning for trying to enter a security checkpoint at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix without a ticket. Twelve days later, she was arrested at a terminal at the same airport for criminal trespass. The next day, she was once again spotting loitering around a security checkpoint, CNN reported.

At a press conference, she refused to take the blame for her actions: “Why has the government allowed me to get past security points?”

Earlier that month, she pleaded no contest to a misdemeanour count of stowing away: She made it through a screening checkpoint at Mineta San Jose International Airport without a ticket and boarded a Los Angeles-bound flight.

She has not disclosed her strategy for making her way onto flights without tickets.

"I don’t think it’s wise to say how I got through. I don’t want to help the enemy," she told reporters after being sentenced to two years probation and three days in jail.

(She was given credit for time served and immediately released.)

"…I want to go with a paid ticket…I want to do everything legal," Hartman said. "It was clearly wrong on my part…It was stupid and it is something I don’t want to repeat."

Before the San Jose incident, Hartman had been arrested six previous times for attempts to sneak onto flights, KTLA reported, including three different Hawaii-bound flights from the San Francisco International Airport (SFO).

Following her arrests at SFO last spring, a judge determined Hartman was suffering from a “major mental illness.” She was transferred to a residential mental-health program at the Redwood House Mental Health Facility — but walked away from the facility after one week.

It wasn’t long before she was once again trying to board planes.

According to KTLA, as of last summer Hartman was living in a homeless shelter in San Francisco. She says she once worked as a legal secretary.

Hartman is due to make her next court appearance tomorrow.

“No matter what happens in court, at least one important question remains: How did she get to Minnesota?” asked CNN.