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Two CNN producers arrested trying to 'sneak onto' World Trade Center site

In this combination of two photos provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, Cable News Network producers Yon Pomrenze, left, and Connor Fieldman Boals, are shown after their arrests on Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Both men have been charged with criminal trespass, obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct after trying to forcibly push their way through a controlled gate at the World Trade Center Construction site in New York City. A spokeswoman for CNN said the men were in the area to do a story about the recent security breaches and were not asked to sneak onto the site. (AP Photo/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) In this combination of two photos provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, Cable News Network producers Yon Pomrenze, left, and Connor Fieldman Boals, are shown after their arrests on Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Both men have been charged with criminal trespass, obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct after trying to forcibly push their way through a controlled gate at the World Trade Center Construction site in New York City. A spokeswoman for CNN said the men were in the area to do a story about the recent security breaches and were not asked to sneak onto the site. (AP Photo/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey)

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Credit: Rodney Ho

In this combination of two photos provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, Cable News Network producers Yon Pomrenze, left, and Connor Fieldman Boals, are shown after their arrests on Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Both men have been charged with criminal trespass, obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct after trying to forcibly push their way through a controlled gate at the World Trade Center Construction site in New York City. A spokeswoman for CNN said the men were in the area to do a story about the recent security breaches and were not asked to sneak onto the site. (AP Photo/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) In this combination of two photos provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, Cable News Network producers Yon Pomrenze, left, and Connor Fieldman Boals, are shown after their arrests on Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Both men have been charged with criminal trespass, obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct after trying to forcibly push their way through a controlled gate at the World Trade Center Construction site in New York City. A spokeswoman for CNN said the men were in the area to do a story about the recent security breaches and were not asked to sneak onto the site. (AP Photo/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey)
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March 25, 2014

Two CNN producers were arrested trying to "sneak onto" the World Trade Center site Tuesday to test security.

Why? Last week, a sixteen year old managed to get onto the site and climb to the top of the Freedom Tower. Then three men on Monday were charged with parachuting onto the site.

The New York Post reported that a CNN spokesperson said producers Connor Boals, 26, and Yon Pomrenze, 35, "were not asked to sneak onto the WTC site."

Both were charged with trespassing, obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct.

Boals is a 2010 Columbia University grad school graduate who has also worked at ABC News and Thomson Reuters and has been at CNN since January, according to his LinkedIn page. Pomrenze is also a Columbia University graduate who previously worked at NBC News and has been at CNN since 2012.

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Rodney Ho writes about entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution including TV, radio, film, comedy and all things in between. A native New Yorker, he has covered education at The Virginian-Pilot, small business for The Wall Street Journal and a host of beats at the AJC over 20-plus years. He loves tennis, pop culture & seeing live events.

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