75-year Old Man Makes Bomb Threat
75-year Old Man Makes Bomb Threat – A 75-year-old man named Draco Slaughter told a flight attendant on Southwest Airlines he had a bomb in his carry-on luggage, forcing passengers to exit while authorities inspected the aircraft for two hours.
Southwest Flight 373 had arrived at about 2:35 p.m. at the Ronkonkoma airport, about 50 miles east of New York City on Long Island, and passengers were getting off the plane when an attendant noticed a carry-on bag on an empty seat across from Slaughter, police said.
When asked about the bag, Slaughter said it was his bag and “there was a bomb in it,” police said.
The flight attendant notified the pilot, and the pilot contacted airport law enforcement, who met the arriving plane at the gate.
“We take this stuff very seriously,” Teresa Rizzuto, commissioner of the Long Island MacArthur Airport, told reporters.
The suspect, identified as 75-year old Draco Slaughter of Chicago, was arrested on a charge of first-degree falsely reporting an incident, police said. No reason was given for making the bomb threat.
The bomb scare forced all of the through passengers on the flight to Palm Beach to deplane so the aircraft could be screened to explosives.
None were found, but the continuing leg of the flight to Florida was delayed by about two hours.
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