00:00He doesn't speak English.
00:01We have him at the back door. Back door has been breached by him.
00:06Aircon 400. Subject in costume.
00:08A deranged passenger who claimed he had a bomb aboard a New Orleans-bound United Airlines flight
00:13and then tried to rush the cockpit has been identified.
00:16Officials told The Post that Roni Alexander Gomez Alberto was arrested without incident
00:21after the 34-year-old prompted pilots to send out a hijacking alert
00:25when he allegedly threatened to blow up the plane and rushed toward the cockpit.
00:28Intense audio revealed the nutjob, a 34-year-old Hispanic man who, quote,
00:32spoke nearly no English, was detained at the back of the plane
00:36after the flight crew convinced them to move to the rear, allowing the aircraft to land safely.
00:41We're going to approach and enter through the rear of the aircraft.
00:45It's a Hispanic male wing, a height, crossing about 5'7".
00:48Officials corralled the plane's remaining passengers
00:51and started communicating with officials on the ground about what they saw on the frightening flight.
00:55The advised, one passenger, he changed into all-black before he started trying to breach the cockpit.
01:02No bomb was found on the plane and Gomez Alberto was charged with a count of communicating
01:07false information of planned arson and terrorizing, court records show.
01:11And this wasn't Gomez Alberto's first run-in with the law.
01:14According to immigration officials, the Honduras native was arrested on three separate occasions
01:19by Border Patrol for illegally entering the United States.
01:22He was also deported back to his home country twice, first in 2011 near El Indio, Texas,
01:28and then again in 2014 in Columbus, New Mexico.
01:31The migrant made his way back into the U.S. a third time in 2019 near California's San Ysidro
01:36border town, where he was nabbed again.
01:38But Gomez Alberto was freed from ICE custody in January 2020, after a judge ordered his release
01:44pending removal proceedings, authorities said.
01:46ICE launched a detainer for Gomez Alberto on November 10th with the sheriff's office after the incident
01:51in the air.
