Newsline: Diplomat’s Aide Faces Assault Charges After JFK Scuffle

September 25, 2010 at 6:32 am · Filed under Central African Republic, US

Let this be a lesson to all diplomatic attachés: Just wait for your gun to be processed at JFK Airport. The Post reports that a “man traveling with the president of the Central African Republic got into a scuffle with a Port Authority cop over a gun.” At 4:15 p.m., “A US Secret Service agent approached a PA cop for help in getting a package containing a gun through screening, and the officer paused to call a supervisor. An attaché, Mario de Gonzalez Bengabo-Gomo, 38, grabbed the package and began walking away… A fight broke out between Bengabo-Gomo and the cop, ending with the cop hospitalized and the attaché, who does not have diplomatic status, facing assault, resisting-arrest and weapons charges.”

http://gothamist.com/2010/09/24/diplomats_aide_faces_assault_charge.php

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