Twice-deported illegal immigrant accused of trying to storm United cockpit, threatening bomb: DHS

Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, is accused of attempting to enter the cockpit of a United Airlines flight and claiming to have a bomb. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Gomez-Alberto had been deported from the United States twice previously. ICE has lodged a detainer for Gomez-Alberto, who was arrested upon the flight’s safe landing in New Orleans.

• 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.