Cuba hands over U.S. parents accused of abducting their sons Wed Apr 10, 2013 7:50am EDT (Reuters) - Cuba allowed U.S. authorities to land a plane on the island and retrieve an American man accused of kidnapping his two young sons and sailing to the communist island with them and his wife, U.S. news media reported. The plane returned to Tampa, Florida, early on Wednesday with Joshua Michael Hakken, his wife, Sharyn Hakken, and their sons, 4-year-old Cole and 2-year-old Chase, the Tampa Bay Times said. The parents, who had lost custody of their children, were jailed on kidnapping and other charges. The children were returned to their maternal grandparents, from whose home they were allegedly abducted last week. Cuba's Foreign Ministry issued a terse statement on Tuesday saying the family had arrived by boat at the Hemingway Marina near Havana on Sunday and would be turned over to U.S. authorities. Cuba turned them over to officials from the U.S. State Department and the FBI a few hours later. A State Department official said earlier that the United States was receiving "very good cooperation from the Cuban authorities," who had provided "all appropriate assistance to the family." But there were few if any parallels between the Hakken case and Gonzalez saga, which involved a boy plucked from an inner tube off the Florida coast after his mother and others drowned while fleeing Cuba. Hakken is accused of breaking into his mother-in-law's home north of Tampa a week ago, tying her up and fleeing with his sons, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. The boys had been placed in the legal custody of their grandparents, Patricia and Robert Hauser, after the Hakkens attended an "anti-government" rally in June in Louisiana, where police said they found Hakken in the family's hotel room with a gun, marijuana and a knife, talking about a "journey to Armageddon," according to the Tampa Bay Times.