When Chris Roberts was pulled off a United Airlines flight last month — and banned by the airline — was it just because of a tweet that he deemed humorous?

The security expert seemed to suggest in the tweet that he could make the oxygen masks deploy, just by hacking into a box under his seat.

Now, a search warrant application connected with that event has emerged — first noticed by Canada’s APTN — that puts even darker nuances to the tale.

In it, FBI agent Mark Hurley describes an interview with Roberts on April 15 at Syracuse airport, after he’d been detained.

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