A Delta Air Lines co-pilot was detained by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers on allegations of child sexual assault.
The spectacular arrest took place at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday night, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
According to the site, the aircraft from Minneapolis arrived about 9:35 p.m. after being delayed twice on approach owing to severe fog. When the jet arrived at the terminal gate, people exited regularly until chaos occurred.
Sarah Christianson, a passenger, told the magazine via email that a group of approximately ten people with “badges, guns, and different agency vests/markings” made their way up the aisle to the cockpit, where the co-pilot was situated.
They then “stormed the cockpit” before detaining the co-pilot and taking him down the aisle and off the plane via cabin doors between the Coach and First-Class sections, she told the magazine.
The aviation blog “A View From the Wing” uploaded a video of the event, which showed law enforcement storming the plane’s cockpit area to make the arrest.
The co-pilot’s identity has not been revealed.
This comes amid a broader effort from President Donald Trump’s administration to ramp up arrests and deportations.
Last week, Trump praised ICE officers for “fighting every day to reclaim our Sovereignty and Freedom,” as he spotlighted their role in his plans for the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history.
“I want to give a big ‘THANK YOU!’ to the Heroic ICE Officers fighting every day to reclaim our Sovereignty and Freedom,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
He pointed to his signature immigration plan, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as the key to giving ICE billions more in funding to carry out its immigration enforcement duties.
“One of the most exciting parts of the ‘ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT’ is that it includes ALL of the Funding and Resources that ICE needs to carry out the Largest Mass Deportation Operation in History,” Trump said.
“Our Brave ICE Officers, who are under daily violent assault, will finally have the tools and support that they need. We will not let America become a Third World Country filled with Crime, failing Schools, collapsing Hospitals, and total Social Dysfunction,” he continued.
“It’s called ‘REMIGRATION’ and, it will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Border czar Tom Homan, meanwhile, shockingly revealed that he is living apart from his wife due to death threats he has received in an interview with the New York Post’s Miranda Divine last month on her “Pod Force One” podcast.
“I spent a lot of time with my boys growing up, but as I got more and more — climbed the ladder of what I’ve done with ICE director and now back — I don’t see my family very much,” Homan said.
“My wife’s living separately from me right now, mainly because I worked for many hours, but mostly because of the death threats against me,” the country’s top border enforcer added. “She’s someplace else. I see her as much as I can, but the death threats against me and my family are outrageous.”
Homan served as acting ICE director during the first Trump administration but chose to retire after his nomination for the permanent role stalled in the Senate amid concerns about his tenure at the agency.
Homan said that Trump tapped him for his position within days of his landslide victory over then-Vice President Kamala Harris. He described the watershed moment to Divine as an offer that he simply could not refuse.