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Queens Woman Who Punched Plane Staffer Gets Probation 

A federal judge on Friday called a woman who punched a flight attendant earlier this year a ``mean drunk,'' but he spared her from prison in a separate assault case.

U.S. District Judge John Kane in Denver gave 36-year-old Christina Elizabeth Szele credit for four months of time served and placed her on three years of supervised probation for a charge in March in which she allegedly punched her sister-in-law and pulled her hair in her hometown of Queens, N.Y.

Szele had pleaded guilty in February to interfering with a JetBlue crew member who tried to stop her from smoking on a flight from New York to San Francisco last year. She was on probation at the time of the March incident in Queens.

Szele pleaded guilty to violating her probation by drinking.

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