New details have emerged about why a pilot was arrested at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, July 26, in an incident reportedly involving a Delta Air Lines flight.

Rustom Bhagwagar, 34, was arrested and booked on five counts of oral copulation with a child under 10 years of age, the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said on Monday, July 28. Authorities said they learned that Bhagwagar, of Florida, was an airline pilot due to fly into SFO on the evening of Saturday, July 26, amid an investigation that authorities had conducted since April after receiving a report of sex crimes against a child.

At about 9:35 p.m., Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office detectives, with the assistance of Homeland Security Investigations, boarded the plane to arrest Bhagwagar.

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