{"id":126948,"date":"2026-01-21T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126948\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:38:08","slug":"colombian-accused-of-destroying-plane-bathroom-as-his-deportation-flight-left-fll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126948\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian accused of destroying plane bathroom as his deportation flight left FLL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7UF3FEMR35HBVPNXNUE2BWV2SE.jpg\"  width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\"\/>Photo Eduardo Restrepo Caballero (BSO\/WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A Colombian national being deported back to his home country destroyed an airplane bathroom before his Bogota-bound flight left Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Tuesday, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said they arrested Eduardo Jose Restrepo Caballero, 27, of Barranquilla, after the Spirit Airlines flight returned to the gate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies said U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials had escorted Restrepo Caballero on the morning flight as part of his administrative deportation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A BSO arrest report states that as the plane was taxiing, he entered the rear lavatory and \u201cbegan destroying the wall panels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said he also \u201c(threw) large amounts of paper into the toilet\u201d and \u201cspilled or poured an unknown liquid on the floor\u201d before a flight attendant confronted him and ordered him back to his seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said other passengers were removed from the flight after it returned to the gate while a maintenance crew examined the damage, estimated at around $10,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Restrepo Caballero is facing charges of felony criminal mischief and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Wednesday, he was being held in the BSO Main Jail with a $2,650 bond and an immigration hold.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandPhoto Eduardo Restrepo Caballero (BSO\/WPLG) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A Colombian national&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-126948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}