A Florida man was arrested after he stripped off his clothing0, prompting an evacuation at Daytona Beach Airport before warning authorities of a bomb he said he hid in a terminal bathroom.
According to the Orlando Sentinel:
The Volusia Sheriff’s Office report states that John T. Greenwood arrived at the airport clothed, then went into a women’s bathroom that was under construction and stripped. He also forced a bag behind sheetrock in the bathroom’s wall, the sheriff said.
Deputies were called to the airport about 6:20 a.m., responding to a report of a “suspicious person.”
They found Greenwood in the baggage claim area.
“He was naked,” Chitwood said. “He was on the baggage carousel trying to get out onto the tarmac.”
Greenwood didn’t immediately respond to commands, so a deputy used a Taser on him, the Sheriff’s Office said. During the arrest, he claimed that a bomb was about to go off at the airport, deputies said.
“He shouted at the deputies, ‘We gotta get out of here. The bomb is going to go off. I planted a bomb in the bathroom,’” Chitwood said. Deputies and bomb-sniffing dogs soon cleared the terminal, which reopened about 9:40 a.m. Instead of a bomb, the bag he hid in the bathroom held Greenwood’s clothing.
After his arrest, Greenwood reportedly told deputies he had “ingested Molly and a bunch of other drugs” the night before.
No explosives were found and the airport was soon back to normal operations. For video of the arrest, flip the page.