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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Cops, immigration to receive Sankat

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Rhondor Dowlat
2482 days ago
20181002
Nishal Sankat during his recent appearance in the Brevard County Jail courtroom.

Nishal Sankat during his recent appearance in the Brevard County Jail courtroom.

A team of po­lice and Im­mi­gra­tion Of­fi­cers will be at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port to re­ceive Nishal Sankat as soon as he ar­rives from the Unit­ed States to­mor­row morn­ing.

This was this morn­ing con­firmed by Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young.

Young said he was con­tact­ed by US au­thor­i­ties yes­ter­day and in­formed that Sankat is to be de­port­ed back to T&T to­mor­row.

“I wish to state that all arms of our law en­force­ment that deal with re­turn­ing de­por­tees have been no­ti­fied and are pre­pared to re­ceive Mr Sankat in the usu­al course of a re­turn­ing na­tion­al who has been de­port­ed,” Young said.

“The Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty is in con­tact with US au­thor­i­ties to ob­tain as much in­for­ma­tion per­tain­ing to Mr Sankat as pos­si­ble.”

Sankat was jailed af­ter be­ing charged with try­ing to steal a plane at the Mel­bourne Air­port in Flori­da two weeks ago. The Or­lan­do Mel­bourne Air­port was placed on lock¬down when Sankat re­port­ed­ly board­ed an Amer­i­can Air­lines plane and tried to at­tempt a take-off. Two em­ploy­ees on du­ty re­port­ed­ly thwart­ed Sankat’s at­tempt be­fore call­ing se­cu­ri­ty.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­port on US TV sta­tion Fox 35 News, Sankat took a plea deal which al­lows him to leave prison but he will be im­me­di­ate­ly re­port­ed.

The re­port said he's be­ing al­lowed to re­turn to T&T af­ter plead­ing guilty to bur­glary as part of a deal made af­ter the FBI and po­lice de­ter­mined Sankat act­ed alone and suf­fered from de­pres­sion and men­tal health is­sues.

When asked if this was enough of a pun­ish­ment, his at­tor­ney told Fox 35 News, “I think that the plea agree­ment was an ap­pro­pri­ate plea agree­ment con­sid­er­ing the cir­cum­stances.”

There are oth­er con¬se¬quences, how­ev­er, as Sankat is los­ing his pi­lot’s li­cense and visa. His name will al­so be added to the US No-Fly list as he’s now a con­vict­ed felon will nev­er be al­lowed back in the US.

The Flori­da To­day news­pa­per is al­so re­port­ing that the 22-year-old part-time Flori­da Tech stu­dent, who was study­ing avi­a­tion man­age­ment, must al­so pay US$909 to cov­er the cost of the Mel­bourne Air­port Po­lice De­part­ment in­ves­ti­ga­tion.


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