Bomb Scare At Motor City Casino – Suspicious Devices Found

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UPDATE: A 70-year-old Eastpointe man has been arrested after police say he left seven suspicious packages in the Motor City Casino garage Sunday.

After more than six and a half hours, Detroit police and Homeland Security officials allowed customers to retrieve their cars from the Motor City Casino parking garage.

The bomb squad detonated three suspicious devices out of at least six Sunday evening.

The items were discovered in the parking garage about 4:30 p.m. by a casino security guard.

The finding prompted police to sweep Greektown and MGM Grand Casinos with K-9s as a precaution; however, nothing was found.

None of the packages at Motor City turned out to be explosives; however, authorities were not revealing the contents of the parcels.

For about an hour and a half after the discovery officers weren’t letting people out of the building.

Later, they allowed customers to leave but they could not get their cars from the garage because of the ongoing investigation.

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Suspicious Pipe-Like Device Found Taped To Airport Fuel Truck

Middleton,Wis. – The Dane County Bomb Squad disarmed a suspicious device found taped to the side of a fuel truck at the Middleton Airport on Sunday.

Middleton police said a suspicious man was seen driving a black Ford F-150 pickup truck around the hangars and fuel pit around 8 a.m. on Sunday. The man left after being confronted by airport personnel.

The same man was seen again in the area of the airport gate. The airport employee reported seeing the truck speed away westbound on Airport Road.

Authorities said around 4:30 p.m. a suspicious pipe-like device was observed affixed to the side of a fuel truck at the airport. The fuel truck was in close proximity to other fuel storage tanks.

All flights were diverted from the airport, and the surrounding area was evacuated by Middleton Police and Fire.

The Dane County Bomb Squad took the pipe-like device to an open field to render it safe.

Authorities are looking for the man driving the black truck earlier in the day. That man is described as being between 5 feet 7 inches and six feet tall with a medium build, black hair and a beard.

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Oklahoma City Bomb Threat Shuts Down Federal Office

An ex-convict is being blamed for a bomb threat that shut down the federal office building near downtown for hours Wednesday.

Federal employees were evacuated after the 12:30 p.m. bomb threat, officials said. Oklahoma City police blocked off nearby streets as bomb technicians worked to check a backpack left at the building and a car parked outside.

“This is a major disruption,” FBI spokesman Gary Johnson said. “It is affecting all of downtown.”

Police arrested Roderick Robinson, 30, of Oklahoma City at Walker Cos., a few blocks east of the federal building, about 30 minutes later.

The bomb threat shook up workers in an area devastated in April 1995 when a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The office building evacuated Wednesday was built to replace the Murrah Building.

“It was unnerving,” said Sue Stephens, an office manager of the Walker Cos., where Robinson had used the phone.

The car and backpack were cleared, the FBI said about 10 p.m. No explosive devices were found.

The FBI alleges Robinson gave two threatening handwritten notes to a security guard at the entrance of the federal building. One note claimed a bomb was in the backpack and the other claimed a bomb was in a gray car outside, according to the FBI.

“Both notes said, basically, ‘Give me money’ and ‘You have five minutes,’” Johnson said. “There are some indications he may have written one or both of the notes outside the federal building prior to entering.”

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UC Davis Researchers Face Bomb Threats

An animal rights group has claimed that it has sent letter bombs to two University of California, Davis researchers, the school said.

The UC Davis Police Department, Davis Police Department and other agencies are investigating the claim, and no suspicious packages have yet been detected.

The claim was made late on Saturday in a posting on an activist Web site, but the group was not named by authorities. Police notified the two researchers named in the posting — both who are affiliated with the California National Primate Research Center — early on Sunday morning.

“Such threats against our researchers are unacceptable, and we condemn them in the strongest possible terms,” said Stan Nosek, vice chancellor for administration at UC Davis, who is responsible for oversight of animal research and care on campus.

The university advised all researchers, faculty and staff to be vigilant in handling and opening mail, and to look out for suspicious packages, such as parcels that are unusually shaped, wrapped with a lot of tape or have excess postage.

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Passenger Arrested For Bomb Threat At St. Louis Airport

An airline passenger was arrested after authorities say he made a bomb threat when flight attendants asked him to close his laptop computer before takeoff.

The man was on board a United Express flight to Washington Saturday afternoon at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Airport spokesman Jeff Lea said that when attendants asked him to close his laptop, “he mentioned a bomb or made a bomb threat.”

Police were called, and the man was arrested. The flight was delayed more than two hours while police searched the plane for explosives but nothing was found.

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$50,000 Reward For Info On John Amos Power Plant Bomb Threats

Officials with the John Amos Power Plant are offering a $50,000 reward for information about the people responsible for a string of bomb threats against the Putnam County plant.

John Amos has received five threats within the last four weeks, with the most recent on Monday, said Joe Haynes, the plant’s community-relations manager.

The plant also received threats on Oct. 23, 24, 28 and 30, he said.

“The Oct. 23 one was phoned in to one of the contractors,” Haynes said. “The others were written on the walls of bathroom facilities in graffiti. Once somebody sees it and reports it we have to take it seriously.”

This is not the first time the Appalachian Power plant, which is an operating unit of American Electric Power, has received bomb threats.

Employees were evacuated twice last summer after threats were found written on the walls in the plant’s bathroom, Haynes said.

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department, the State Police and the FBI are involved in the investigation.

A bomb threat is defined as a “threat of terrorist acts,” which is a felony offense under state law and is also a federal offense. Under state law, a person found guilty can be fined from $5,000 to $25,000 and sentenced to one to three years in jail.

State Police swept the plant’s parking lots on Thursday, Haynes said, and a number of drug-related citations were issued. State Police would not comment Tuesday and directed media inquiries to the plant.

Haynes said police theorize that individuals are making the threats to avoid submitting to random drug testing. He said all plant employees and contractors are randomly tested.

There are about 3,000 contractors working at the plant to install a scrubber within the plant’s power-generating unit. There are also about 400 Amos, AEP and independent workers on site.

The threats were made by people “on the inside,” Haynes said.

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Police Investigate Bomb Threat On Airplane At Denver Airport

Authorities are investigating after a passenger allegedly made a comment on Saturday that he had an explosive device on an aircraft at Denver International Airport.

According to officials as DIA, the passenger was accused of making the comment as the airplane pulled away from the jetway, but before it was able to take off. Read more

El Al Plane Flies From Paris to Tel Aviv Despite Bomb Threat

An El Al flight from Paris landed in Tel Aviv without incident on Wednesday after having been the subject of a bomb threat — days before it took off, Israeli television reported.

Public television reported that the Israeli airline had received an email saying a bomb would be on board Flight 324 leaving Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on Wednesday.

It said that after consultations between El Al and Shin Beth, Israel’s security service, a decision was taken not to cancel the flight.

It added that, before takeoff, the Boeing 767 and its 237 passengers were subjected to stepped-up security checks and that the French authorities, who had been informed of the threat, ordered an escort of fighter planes.

Italy and Greece also ordered escorts as the plane passed over their territory before being intercepted by Israeli fighters and escorted to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport.

After landing, the plane was subjected to further checks, and no bomb was found.

Officials at El Al were not immediately available for comment on the report.

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Suspicious Device Discovered On Bridge Near Spokane Wa.

Pullman Police have closed off Spring Street between Main Street and Reaney Park after a suspicious device was discovered attached to the bridge.

Police said the item was discovered shortly after 7 p.m. by a group of juveniles. It’s been described as wires and tubes that are attached to the bridge with duct tape and potentially could be near a natural gas line that runs along the bridge.

The Spokane Bomb Squad has been called and should be en route shortly. The city also is attempting to contact the Department of Ecology to determine if it’s a state water-testing device.

Police Chief Ted Weatherly said it could be 11 p.m. before the bomb squad arrives.

He described the device as “highly suspicious.”

“We just couldn’t find any legitimate reason for it to be there,” he said.

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Suspicious Package On Train in North Bergen Was ‘Electronic Device’

UPDATE: A suspicious packae on a CSX train in North Bergen contained an electronic device that bomb squad officers blasted with a water cannon, and authorities are still trying to determine what it is.

The woman form Florida who called police this morning and said a bomb was on the train later said it was just a hoax, though the bomb squad kept searching the train until they found the package she referred to. Read more

U.S. Open Employee Accused Of Making Bomb Threat

A teenage employee at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in Flushing Meadows, Queens, has been charged with making a series of phone calls to the venue Wednesday – while at work – claiming that a bomb had been planted at the Arthur Ashe Stadium there. The threats turned out to be a hoax.

Mahmet M. Kadayifci, 19, of 34-24 77th St. in the Elmhurst section of Queens. Kadayifci, who is a contracted employee with the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) assigned to the fire watch area at the U.S. Open, is presently awaiting arraignment in Queens Criminal Court in Kew Gardens on charges of first- and second-degree falsely reporting an incident. If convicted, he faces up to seven years in prison.

Prosecutors said that shortly after midnight on Tuesday evening, the USTA Command Center received a telephone call from a female operator advising them that she worked as a relay operator for a company that facilitated conversations between hearing and hearing impaired individuals and that she had a message from a client that stated a bomb had been placed within Arthur Ashe Stadium. Ten minutes later, the Command Center received a second call from another operator, this time advising them that a bomb had been placed in the USTA’s Fire Command Center.

District attorney Richard A. Brown said that it is further alleged that at approximately 12:48 a.m., less than 30 minutes after the first call was received, an employee at the USTA Fire Command Center received a call from a third operator relaying a client’s message that stated there was a bomb in the fire command center and that this was a final warning. The employee immediately notified his supervisor of the threat. At the time all three messages were received, Kadayifci was working at the USTA Fire Command Center and it is alleged that he had a laptop with him which he continually accessed.

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Bomb Squad Investigating Materials, Powders Found In Home – Ohio

The Columbus Division of Fire Bomb Squad was investigating explosive materials and chemicals that were discovered inside a home on Monday afternoon.

Officers from the bomb squad and other agencies were called to the home, located at 4967 Brice Meadows Drive, after receiving a call from a property manager, 10TV’s Kevin Landers reported. Read more

Swiss Plane Makes Emergency Landing After Bomb Threat

A Swiss International Air Lines plane was forced to make an emergency landing on Saturday after a bomb threat was made against the flight, the official Swiss info news website reported.

The flight from Zurich to Malaga in Spain was overflying France when the pilot was informed a threat had been made via the Swiss offices, according to the report.

The Airbus A321 then turned around and landed safely at Geneva airport.

No one was injured during the landing, a spokesman of the airport was quoted by Swissinfo as saying.

The passengers were evacuated on slides and taken to a waiting room. The airplane was then moved from the runway for checks by bomb disposal experts.

But no explosive devices were found on the plane. Geneva Airport sources indicated there might have been a false alarm.

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Williams Lake Airport Reopens After Bomb Scare – Canada

Williams Lake Regional Airport was evacuated and several flights cancelled Sunday after material that was thought to be suspicious was found in two bags going through security.

However, RCMP announced Sunday evening that no explosive devices had been found. The airport returned to normal operations after 7 p.m. Sunday night.

Police said the person who owned the package that raised concerns was initially detained, but has since been released.

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