Simply 10 minutes after a Delta aircraft landed at San Francisco Worldwide Airport, legislation enforcement and federal brokers entered the cockpit and apprehended a pilot, authorities say.
The arrest Saturday left passengers agape.
The officers and brokers “have been pushing their means up via the aisle” and into the cockpit, the place they cuffed the co-pilot earlier than main him away, one passenger instructed the San Francisco Chronicle.
Rustom Bhagwagar, a 34-year-old Florida resident, was arrested on suspicion of sexual crimes in opposition to a minor.
Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies and Division of Homeland Safety brokers apprehended Bhagwagar about 9:35 p.m. Saturday after the Delta Air Traces flight from Minneapolis landed at SFO, in line with a sheriff’s information launch.
Authorities stated Bhagwagar was arrested and booked into the Martinez Detention Facility on 5 counts of oral copulation with a baby underneath the age of 10. His bail was set at $5 million.
The investigation into Bhagwagar started months in the past after authorities acquired studies that he had allegedly dedicated a sexual crime in opposition to a baby, in line with the discharge. Contra Costa deputies found that Bhagwagar was a pilot and — with help from Homeland Safety, which didn’t participate within the investigation — apprehended him as soon as the flight concluded.
A spokesperson from Delta Air Traces stated in a press release to The Occasions that it might cooperate with authorities and has “zero tolerance” for the alleged illegal conduct.
Deputies stated the investigation was persevering with. Anybody with info is urged to contact the sheriff’s Investigations Division at (925) 313-2600 or at (866) 846-3592 for nameless ideas.
