Feds: Detainee at airport for deportation escapes in taxi
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Federal authorities say an immigration detainee about to be deported to Senegal escaped custody at New York's Kennedy Airport and fled in a taxi.
A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Mohamadou Lamine Mbacke was in the custody of its agents at the airport Tuesday night when he bolted and got into a cab.
The agency says Mbacke entered the country lawfully in 2005 but violated the terms of his status.
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Mbacke was ordered deported in September 2015. ICE spokesman Khaalid Walls says the 31-year-old Mbacke has criminal convictions for weapons offenses.
Walls says Mbacke had not been located Wednesday.