OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — On Thursday, a 31-year-old pilot from Oklahoma City pleaded guilty to unlawfully entering the U.S. in plane while transporting a firearm under a previous criminal indictment.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Aiman Sobhy Elkhatib was charged on June 17, 2024, with transportation of a firearm while under indictment and knowingly bringing migrants into the country.
Court records show agents with Homeland Security Investigations received information that an aircraft had unlawfully entered the U.S. from Mexico and failed to stop for a customs inspection.
Agents then found the plane occupied by Elkhatib and another unnamed person at Sundance Airport in Yukon, and seized a gun they found in the plane during a search…