Delta Pilot Handcuffed And Interrogated After Feds Raid Wrong Hotel Room

An unintended victim was detained and interrogated after Federal agents stormed into a room in a Boston hotel on Tuesday night. Instead of their intended target, they had entered the wrong room and handcuffed an unassuming Delta Air Lines pilot, whom they interrogated for close to an hour before realizing their mistake. The agents were involved in a training exercise intended to simulate an environment similar to those their personnel might encounter in a deployed situation.

The FBI’s Boston Division issued a statement, acknowledging that they had been assisting the Department of Defense and had been “mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player.” The agency attributed the fluke to inaccurate information, and stated that nobody had been injured.

Local CBS affiliate WBZ-TV spoke to sources who confirmed that the hotel guest had been awakened by agents, detained, and placed in the shower on the 15th floor of the hotel. He was later released after Boston Police Department officers confirmed that the incident was indeed part of a training exercise.

U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s Lt. Col. Mike Burns expressed the Department of Defense’s deepest apologies to the man. He stated that the training exercise had been intended to enhance soldiers’ ability to operate in unfamiliar and realistic environments. The training team had mistakenly entered the wrong room and apprehended someone who was unaffiliated with the exercise. Delta Air Lines has said it is investigating the incident, but has yet to make any further statement.

The FBI emphasized that they take such incidents very seriously, and are reviewing the situation with the Department of Defense for appropriate action.