Ok, after reading the articles, for some reason I didn't think he had made it out yet.
Maybe I'm confusing my experiences going through customs, but I thought you landed, milled around filling out paperwork, went through one line, then went through another line, and then were released into the rest of the airport. It has been awhile.
It is sad, however.
Velveeta found an update:
NEWARK, N.J. -- A passenger who had just flown in from Portugal was found hanged in a janitor's closet at Newark Liberty International Airport, authorities said.
The death of Anandio Da Conceicao was ruled a suicide by the state medical examiner, said John Hagerty, a spokesman for the state Division of Criminal Justice.
Da Conceicao, 39, of Silver Spring, Md., entered the closet in Terminal C about an hour after landing from Lisbon on Continental Airlines flight 65 at 12:24 p.m. Sunday, said Lou Martinez, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport.
The closet was temporarily unlocked while a cleaner was nearby, he said. When she returned, she found the man hanging on a makeshift noose, Martinez said.
She summoned agents of Customs and Border Protection, who were unable to revive the man, said agency spokeswoman Janet Rapaport.
Da Conceicao, a U.S. citizen originally from Portugal, had not yet reached the customs checkpoint, and was scheduled to catch a connecting flight to Washington, D.C., Martinez said.