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DHS: United passenger accused of bomb threat and cockpit rush is a twice-deported Honduran freed by a judge in 2020
Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, 34, accused of claiming to have a bomb and trying to reach the cockpit of United Flight 2174 from Newark to New Orleans on Monday night, is a Honduran national who was deported in 2011 and 2014 and caught again at the border in 2019, the Department of Homeland Security said, according to Fox News and the New York Post. He was released from ICE custody in January 2020 after a judge ordered him freed pending removal proceedings, DHS told the Post, and ICE lodged a detainer with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office on Tuesday. The flight carried 46 passengers and six crew and landed safely; he is charged with communicating false information of planned arson and terrorizing and is held without bail, the Post reported.
- Fox NewsTwice-deported illegal immigrant accused of trying to storm United cockpit, threatening bomb: DHS
- New York PostTwice-deported illegal immigrant ID'd as United flier accused of bomb, hijack threat