Twice-deported illegal immigrant accused of trying to storm United cockpit, threatening bomb: DHS
Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, accused of a bomb threat on a United Airlines flight to New Orleans, had been deported twice before, DHS confirms.
TL;DR
- Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, is accused of attempting to enter the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 2174 and claiming to have a bomb.
- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed that Gomez-Alberto had been deported from the U.S. twice before, in 2011 and 2014.
- He was arrested again by Border Patrol in 2019 after another attempted illegal entry.
- ICE lodged a detainer for Gomez-Alberto after his arrest in Jefferson Parish on charges including communicating false information of planned arson and terrorizing.
- United Airlines flight 2174 landed safely in New Orleans, where law enforcement met the aircraft.