A JetBlue flight on its way to Las Vegas from Boston returned to its gate Monday night after a “non-compliant passenger” became “verbally abusive,” according to Massachusetts State Police.

Massachusetts State Police troopers were notified by JetBlue around 10 p.m. that flight 777, on its way to Las Vegas, was returning to the gate. Police issued a summons for a 37-year-old Louisville, Kentucky man on a charge of interference with a flight crew.

The summons orders the man, whom police did not name, to appear in Boston Municipal Court in East Boston.

The other passengers aboard the plane were able to disembark safely, police said.

Tracking data on FlightAware shows the flight was scheduled to leave Boston just after 7 p.m. Monday, and arrive in Nevada just after midnight Eastern time. Bu

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