Former Greenville police chief says he was detained at NY airport

The former Greenville police chief, a regular overseas traveler, said he was accustomed to being welcomed back into the United States by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers “with a warm smile and the usual, ‘Welcome home sir.’ ” But, he says, when he flew back from his mother’s 80th birthday party in Paris, the officer instead asked whether he was traveling alone and then said, “Let’s take a walk.”

Hassan Aden says customs officers detained him for an hour and a half after he landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on March 13.

The former police chief took to Facebook on Saturday to share his story.

“I was taken to a back office which looked to be a re-purposed storage facility with three desks and signs stating, ‘Remain seated at all times’ and ‘Use of telephones strictly prohibited’ – my first sign that this was not a voluntary situation and, in fact, a detention,” he writes.

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