This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.

A flight carrying immigration detainees was stranded at Portsmouth International Airport for over 12 hours Monday due to severe winter weather and a blizzard warning.

The detainees on Omni Air International 4065, which arrived in New Hampshire from Harlingen, Texas at 1 a.m. Monday, were eventually let off the plane. As of 7 p.m. Monday, they were still being held in the terminal, according to a spokesperson for Port City Air, the on-the-ground operator at the airport. The terminal is currently not open to the public, and it is unclear when the flight will take off.

Details of the incident have been difficult to confirm. A spokesperson for Portsmouth International Airport said they were not told the flight was arriving until 15 minutes before it landed.

“Had we been informed in advance of their intent to land at [Portsmouth] during the blizzard, we would have strongly advised against it and encouraged them to divert to another airport not being impacted by this severe winter storm,” the spokesperson said.

Port City Air, the on-the ground operator, said this wasn’t their decision, either. A spokesperson said their operations remain open through the storm.

“Decisions about flights into, out of, and holding at Pease are not made by Port City Air. ICE-flight decisions are made by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,” according to a statement from Port City Air. “It is our legal obligation to safely service any flights into or out of the airport.“

When an NHPR reporter called Omni, the flight operator, to speak to someone, the person who answered the phone said, “We are a charter airline; we do not give out classified information” and hung up.

This incident has caught the attention of local officials and No ICE New Hampshire, a grassroots activist organization, which has been on the ground documenting deportation flights into and out of Portsmouth. Jo Jordan from the organization said the incident is an example of the agency’s “operational cruelty.”

“To force a flight into a blizzard shows a complete disregard for the safety of the flight crew and airport ground staff,” Jordan said. “This is not simply a logistical error; it is a feature of ICE’s inhumane mission.”

ICE did not respond to a request for comment Monday.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent shot an unidentified person around 1 a.m. Sunday in Pittsburg, N.H., near the Canadian border.

According to the FBI, the person allegedly fired first. The Border Patrol agent was not injured.

The person was transferred to an area hospital and is receiving medical treatment.

“The FBI’s Evidence Response Team is collecting all relevant evidence from the scene,” an FBI spokesperson said in a statement. The U.S. Attorney’s office is also investigating the incident.

No other information has been released.

New Hampshire shares an approximately 58-mile border with Canada, much of it heavily forested and largely inaccessible. In recent years, there have been a small number of arrests and verified crossings involving people without proper documentation entering into New Hampshire.

The state has set aside millions of dollars in extra funding to backstop federal agents in the area.

[Editor’s note: this story will be updated as more information is available.]

BOSTON – A Brazilian national unlawfully living in Massachusetts and New Hampshire was sentenced for dealing firearms without a license. 

According to a release from the Massachusetts Department of Justice, 22-year-old Riquelme Henrique De Aguiar Ferreira, a/k/a “Koringa,” was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Young to two years in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release. The defendant is subject to deportation proceedings upon completion of the imposed sentence. In September 2025, De Aguiar Ferreira pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to engage in the business of dealing firearms without a license and one count of engaging in the business of dealing firearms without a license.

Between May 2023 and August 2023, De Aguiar Ferreira coordinated the sale of two pistols (one with a large capacity magazine) to a cooperating witness without the required license in exchange for cash. The following year, De Aguiar Ferreira also offered the cooperating witness additional firearms for sale, but those transactions never occurred. De Aguiar Ferreira also conspired with others to deal firearms, traveling to South Carolina and connecting supply sources in South Carolina with individuals in Massachusetts. The picture above of the firearms obtained from South Carolina were found on De Aguiar Ferreira’s phone.

United States Attorney Leah Foley; Thomas Greco, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, Boston Field Division; Michael J. Krol, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New England; and Patricia H. Hyde, Field Office Director, Boston, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations made the announcement. Valuable assistance was provided by the Massachusetts State Police and the Framingham, Revere and Merrimac (N.H.) Police Departments. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael J. Crowley and John Reynolds of the Organized Crime & Gang Unit prosecuted the case.