Overview

• Homeland Security Investigations agents and Contra Costa County deputies used a Ramey arrest warrant to board Delta Flight 2809 and detain the co-pilot in the cockpit shortly after it landed at San Francisco International Airport.
• Rustom Bhagwagar, 34, has been booked on five counts of oral copulation with a child under ten and is held on $5 million bail at the Martinez Detention Facility.
• The investigation began in April after the sheriff’s office received a report of child sex crimes and identified Bhagwagar as a suspect following records of his flight assignments.
• Delta Air Lines suspended Bhagwagar pending the judicial process and affirmed its policy of zero tolerance for unlawful conduct.
• Passengers and the remaining pilot described confusion and shock as about ten armed officers stormed the cockpit to carry out the arrest.