US authorities have arrested Luis Armando Pena Soltren, a man wanted in connection with the hijacking of a Pan American flight to Puerto Rico in 1968.
Justice Department spokesman Richard Kolko said that Soltren was arrested on Sunday at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York, where he and his accomplices, armed with guns and knives, boarded a Pan American flight 41 years ago and hijacked it.
Pan American flight 281 had departed JFK and was bound for San Juan, Puerto Rico, when it was diverted in November 1968, the Associated Press reported.
Since the hijacking Soltren has been in Cuba. He will appear in the Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, Kolko said. |