NEW: A United Airlines passenger accused of storming the cockpit and claiming to have a bomb, triggering a hijack alert, is an illegal immigrant from Honduras who had already been deported TWICE, DHS confirms to Fox News.
Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto was arrested after the flight from Newark landed in New Orleans. He now faces felony bomb threat, terroristic threats and disorderly conduct charges.
According to DHS, Gomez-Alberto illegally entered the U.S. three times between 2011 and 2019. After his third entry, Border Patrol arrested him, but an immigration judge ordered his release.
He is now being held without bond in Louisiana.
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