ICE issues detainer for Honduran who allegedly tried to storm cockpit midflight

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged a detainer for a Honduran national who allegedly tried to storm the cockpit on a United Airlines flight late Monday.

Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, 34, was arrested after he allegedly threatened to blow up the airplane midflight with a bomb he claimed to have in his possession. The passenger jet was en route from Newark, New Jersey, to New Orleans.

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