A Delta co-pilot was arrested onboard moments after his flight landed in San Francisco. The charges against him are extremely lurid, helping to explain the curious nature of the arrest. Here’s the latest we know about this matter.
Federal agents—approximately ten officers, including Homeland Security Investigations agents and local investigators from the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office—boarded the aircraft just as passengers were gathering their bags. Witnesses say they “stormed the cockpit,” took the co-pilot into custody in handcuffs, and escorted him down the aisle and off the plane. A second team later retrieved his personal belongings from the aircraft.
Witnesses say at least TEN DHS agents bordered the plane as soon as it parked at the gate and took the pilot into custody.
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