by: Dave Huddleston Updated: Apr 14, 2017 - 12:07 AM 
 
 ATLANTA - Local federal agents arrested a man who is accused of abusing a child, and made the arrest just before he tried to get out of the country. 
 
 Sergio Morales Soto, 19, was on board a flight heading to Guatemala on April 5, but his flight was delayed because of severe weather. 
 
 The storm gave agents enough time to arrest him. 
 
 "We were able to locate which aircraft he was on, actually to the point of which seat he was on. Then we went on board the aircraft and apprehended him," Deputy Special Agent in Charge, Gregory Wiest, of Homeland Security Atlanta said. 
 
 Channel 2 Action News was there when local agents handed Soto over to Caroline County Sheriff's Office agents and he boarded another plane -- this one headed back to Maryland, where Soto will face six felony sex assault charges. 
 
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 "We are quickly able to identify where these people may be within Hartsfield, not even at Hartsfield yet, but booked on a flight. We have people who know the front of the airport to the back of the terminal. They do it every day," Wiest said. 
 
 Port Director Carey Davis, with U.S .Customs Border Protection, said they arrest more than 20 suspects a day across the country. 
 
 He said bad guys think that if they make it to the airport, or even get on a plane they are scot-free. 
 
 “But they're wrong. They're wrong. This is the place we are going to get you," Davis said. 
 
 © 2017 Cox Media Group. ||||| The search is on for the person who claimed bombs were on board two Atlanta-bound planes. 
 
 Fighter jets escorted two planes to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Saturday afternoon, where they were met by a bomb squad and federal agents. 
 
 Channel 2’s Mark Winne broke the news of the bomb threats on Twitter. 
 
 Delta Flight 1156 was coming to Atlanta from Portland, Oregon. Southwest Flight 2492 was heading to Atlanta from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Both landed safely at the airport. 
 
 Winne talked to FBI Special Agent in Charge Britt Johnson in a live report on Channel 2 Action News at 6. 
 
 Johnson told Winne the initial threat was posted to Twitter, and that prompted authorities to act quickly. 
 
 He said the FBI investigated and interviewed passengers. He said they are determined to find the person who sent the tweets. 
 
 No arrests had been made as of Saturday night. 
 
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 Southwest Airlines released the following statement Saturday afternoon: 
 
 "Due a security situation, the aircraft operating Flight 2492 was taken to a remote area of the airport where Customers and the aircraft are being rescreened. Our number one priority is the Safety of our Customers and People. We cannot comment on the nature of the security situation." 
 
 Delta spokesperson Morgan Durrant told Channel 2 Action News security and safety are always the airline's top priority. He said he could not comment on the threats. 
 
 He did say that Delta flight 1156 was taken to a taxiway of the airport to have officials sweep the plane for security . He said the plane was inbound to Atlanta from Portland and that Delta would re-book passengers that needed connections. 
 
 Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes talked to some of those passengers about the ordeal, who said they were not told much at the time. 
 
 “You could look out the window and see people with machine guns and all sorts of threatening things (and) bomb-sniffing dogs,” passenger Joe Larkin told Fernandes. 
 
 Just before 3 p.m. Saturday, a Twitter user tweeted Delta directly saying “I have a bomb on one of your planes, but I forgot which one when I left the airport. Can you help me find it?” 
 
 Delta replied, “Where did you leave the bomb?" The user answered, "It was smuggled through one of the back entrances.” 
 
 FBI agents say they are now on a manhunt to find the Twitter user who posted the threats. 
 
 “Typically on these things, there's a trail. Whether you want it to or not, you leave a trail,” Johnson said. 
 
 The planes were both already headed to Atlanta, when they were guided by fighter jets to the airport’s tarmac. Once at the airport, officials hooked up what they call "rolling tarmac stairs," escorted passengers off the planes and immediately let the bomb-sniffing dogs screen the carry-on luggage from the flights. 
 
 “There was a process about going through the bags and so forth, and then we got on a bus and then they transferred us to one of the fire department houses,” passenger Brian Bennett told Ferandes. 
 
 The airport firehouse served as a command post while federal agents cleared everyone. 
 
 FBI officials tell Channel 2 Action News they never found any explosives. 
 
 The FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating the threats, Johnson told Winne. 
 
 He said it is too early to call the incidents a terror threat. 
 
 “We’ll be going through all the feeds and onboard Wi-Fi,” Johnson said. 
 
 He said whoever posted the threats has committed several federal crimes. 
 
 Atlanta police, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Federal Air Marshals were among the agencies that responded to the threats. 
 
 Flights were initially delayed, incoming and outgoing, at the time.
– An accused child rapist who tried to flee from Maryland to Guatemala was thwarted by bad weather, authorities say. Sergio Morales Soto, 19, was arrested on board a flight at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport the day after the alleged April 4 rape, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. After he was identified as a suspect, police discovered that Soto had boarded an early morning flight in Baltimore, with a connection in Atlanta. Homeland Security officials say flight delays caused by severe weather in the Southeast gave them enough time to catch up with him. Soto was detained in Georgia and put on a plane back to Maryland this week to face six felony assault charges, WSB-TV reports.