A shocking midair incident aboard United Airlines Flight 2174 saw a Honduran national, Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, accused of attempting to breach the cockpit and threatening to detonate a bomb, has revealed a disturbing pattern of prior deportations. Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Gomez-Alberto had been illegally present in the U.S. on at least three occasions, having been apprehended and removed twice before his latest arrest. His first illegal entry was near El Indio, Texas, in September 2011, followed by a second apprehension and removal after crossing near Columbus, New Mexico, in October 2014. Despite these removals, he was again arrested by Border Patrol in 2019 near San Ysidro, California, for attempting another illegal entry. He was subsequently released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in January 2020 pending removal proceedings by an immigration judge. The latest incident, which occurred on a flight from Newark to New Orleans, prompted pilots to issue a hijacking alert due to the alleged bomb threat and attempted cockpit entry. Gomez-Alberto was taken into custody by local law enforcement upon the flight’s safe landing in New Orleans, facing charges including communicating false information of planned arson and terrorizing, as well as bomb threats and disorderly conduct.
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