Federal agents and sheriff's deputies stormed the cockpit of a Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis to San Francisco over the weekend and arrested the co-pilot on child sexual assault charges, authorities said.

Flight 2809 had just arrived at San Francisco International Airport at about 9:35 p.m. Saturday when agents from Homeland Security Investigations and Contra Costa County Sheriff's deputies boarded the Boeing 757-300 jet and removed the co-pilot, identified as 34-year-old Rustom Bhagwagar of Florida, the Sheriff's Office said Monday.

Rustom Bhagwagar Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office

The investigation began in April after the Sheriff's Office received a report of sex crimes against a child, the office said. Detectives later learned that Bhagwagar was an airline pilot and wa

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