The Bay Area woman who stowed away on a flight to Los Angeles, then violated an order to stay away from LAX without a ticket, was released from L.A. County jail on Saturday, just three days after a court commissioner ordered her to spend six months behind bars. 
 
 Jail records showed Marilyn Jean Hartman, 62, was released from county jail at 6:13 p.m. 
 
 A Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman said the reason for Hartman’s short stay in jail was “overcrowding.” 
 
 Airport court Commissioner Alan Rubin sentenced Hartman on Wednesday to 177 days in county jail for violating a probation term that prohibited her from being at Los Angeles International Airport without a ticket. 
 
 Rubin imposed the sentence after Hartman said she preferred jail time to entering a program to deal with her addiction of trying to sneak onto flights without paying. 
 
 Rubin told the white-haired, bespectacled woman that her behavior “has got to stop.” 
 
 “I don’t know if jail time will make an impression,” Rubin said. 
 
 Hartman was arrested six times trying to slip onto flights at San Francisco International Airport in an effort to visit Hawaii. On Aug. 4 she managed to get aboard a Southwest flight to Los Angeles. She was arrested when the jet landed. 
 
 After two days in jail, she pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of entering Los Angeles as a stowaway. Los Angeles airport police arrested Hartman Aug. 7 when she took a Flyaway bus from Union Station — where she had spent the night — to LAX and wandered around several terminals without buying a ticket. 
 
 Rubin then violated her probation. 
 
 An attempt to reach Airport Police Chief Patrick Gannon Saturday night was unsuccessful. 
 
 The Sheriff’s Department commonly releases inmates jailed for non-violent crimes to make room for more dangerous offenders in the crowded system. 

 PHOENIX (AP) — A woman accused of trying to sneak aboard multiple flights without a ticket and sentenced to jail for returning to a Los Angeles airport in violation of her probation was arrested Tuesday after being recognized loitering at a Phoenix airport, police said. 
 
 FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2014 file photo, Marilyn Jean Hartman appears in court in Los Angeles. On Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, Hartman, 62, accused of trying to sneak aboard multiple flights and sentenced... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2014 file photo, Marilyn Jean Hartman appears in court in Los Angeles. On Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, Hartman, 62, accused of trying to sneak aboard multiple flights and sentenced... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police were requesting a mental health evaluation for Marilyn Jean Hartman, 62, who was taken into custody near baggage claim at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on suspicion of criminal trespass, said Sgt. Trent Crump, a Phoenix police spokesman. 
 
 Hartman was recognized by airport personnel about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday "loitering around a checkpoint and again was not in possession of an airline ticket," Crump said. It wasn't the first time she's been spotted at the Phoenix airport. 
 
 Hartman was removed from Sky Harbor on Aug. 20 and given a trespass warning after she attempted to enter a security checkpoint without a ticket, Crump said. That incident came just four days after she was released from jail in California because of overcrowding, only serving a fraction of her 117-day sentence. 
 
 Police did not know how she got to Phoenix after being released from a detention center in Lynwood, California, and did not know if she had an attorney who could speak on her behalf. 
 
 A court commissioner had ordered Hartman to serve jail time for wandering around LAX on Aug. 7, a day after being ordered to stay away from that airport. 
 
 Hartman, who has made previous attempts to sneak aboard flights at other airports, was arrested Aug. 4 for taking a Southwest Airlines flight from San Jose to Los Angeles without a ticket, authorities said. Her boarding status was discovered once the plane landed in Los Angeles. 
 
 At Mineta San Jose International Airport, Hartman tried at least three times to get to a plane before she finally went past a security screener who was busy checking a family's documents, law enforcement officials said. 
 
 She later pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of willfully and unlawfully entering Los Angeles as a stowaway on an aircraft and was sentenced to two years of probation. 
 
 In February, Hartman was sentenced to 18 months' probation in San Mateo County after being arrested for attempting to board three Hawaii-bound flights at San Francisco International Airport on three separate days.
– Serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman was arrested and sentenced to jail after hitching a ride—sans ticket—on a flight from San Jose to Los Angeles, then violating her probation by showing up at LAX after she'd been banned. But that didn't last long: Because of overcrowding, the 62-year-old woman was released from a California jail after serving three days of her six-month sentence, the Daily Breeze reported earlier this month. And you can guess what she did with her freedom. Yes, Hartman was arrested yesterday after loitering around an airport without a ticket, this time at Phoenix Sky Harbor, the AP reports. She'd already been shooed away by police for trying to scoot past security at the Phoenix airport back on Aug. 20, four days after her release from jail, and was given a trespass warning; now she faces criminal trespass charges. Authorities haven't a clue how Hartman got to Arizona, and police have ordered a mental health evaluation. Hartman's rap sheet is extensive; in addition to her recent misadventures, she's also tried to fly to Hawaii free … three times. The San Jose Mercury News tallies her arrests and detentions at 10 since March.