00:00Pilots are going to stay in the cockpit with the door locked.
00:02Flight attendants are going to come off, so we're going to bring them off and bring them over here as
00:07well.
00:07He doesn't speak English.
00:09We have him at the back door. The back door has been breached by him.
00:13Aircom 400, subject in custody.
00:16A deranged passenger who claimed he had a bomb aboard a New Orleans-bound United Airlines flight
00:21and then tried to rush the cockpit has been identified.
00:24Officials told The Post that Roni Alexander Gomez Alberto was arrested without incident
00:28after the 34-year-old prompted pilots to send out a hijacking alert
00:32when he allegedly threatened to blow up the plane and rushed toward the cockpit.
00:36Intense audio revealed the nutjob, a 34-year-old Hispanic man who, quote,
00:40spoke nearly no English, was detained at the back of the plane
00:43after the flight crew convinced them to move to the rear, allowing the aircraft to land safely.
00:48After the plane landed safely at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport,
00:53local authorities attempted to coordinate the other passengers' safe exit from the plane
00:56while the aircraft's pilot stayed locked inside the cockpit.
01:00We're going to approach and enter through the rear of the aircraft.
01:03Do we have any units on singularity cage?
01:06There's a Hispanic male wing I had, pricing about 5-7.
01:10Stay on the line with them and tell them to notify you immediately
01:16if he starts trying to move towards the front of the airplane.
01:18Officials corralled the plane's remaining passengers
01:20and started communicating with officials on the ground
01:23about what they saw on the frightening flight.
01:25My guys, we got passengers coming towards the cars.
01:29Let's keep them corralled right by our cars.
01:32And I'm being told he's wearing all black.
01:35Be advised, one passenger had not told me he changed into all black
01:39before he started trying to reach the cockpit.
01:42Local authorities told WDSU News that Gomez Alberto stayed on the plane
01:46trying to negotiate with police before being arrested.
01:49No bomb was found on the plane, and Gomez Alberto was charged with a count
01:53of communicating false information of planned arson and terrorizing.
01:57Court records show.
01:58And this wasn't Gomez Alberto's first run-in with the law.
02:01According to immigration officials, the Honduras native was arrested
02:04on three separate occasions by Border Patrol for illegally entering the United States.
02:09He was also deported back to his home country twice,
02:11first in 2011 near El Indio, Texas, and then again in 2014 in Columbus, New Mexico.
02:17The migrant made his way back into the U.S. a third time in 2019,
02:21near California's San Ysidro border town, where he was nabbed again.
02:25But Gomez Alberto was freed from ICE custody in January 2020,
02:29after a judge ordered his release pending removal proceedings, authorities said.
02:33In a post on X, DHS wrote that Gomez Alberto's criminal history includes felony bomb threat,
02:39felony threat, terroristic state offenses, and disorderly conduct.
02:43They added, quote,
02:44Under President Trump and Secretary Mullen, criminal illegal aliens who try to hijack airplanes
02:49are not welcome in the United States.
02:52ICE launched a detainer for Gomez Alberto on November 10th with the Sheriff's Office
02:56after the incident in the air.
