Police: Michigan man made hotel bomb threat to ‘send Trump a message’

A antheral who claimed to person near a weaponry successful the lobby of the Trump International Hotel had traveled to Las Vegas from Michigan to “send Trump a message,” according to his apprehension report.

Dandre Lundy, 44, was booked successful the Clark County Detention Center connected Tuesday connected aggregate charges, including communicating a weaponry threat, burglary and making threats oregon conveying mendacious accusation concerning acts of terrorism.

Police were called to the edifice successful the day aft a antheral near a ample suitcase and duffel astatine the concierge stand, saying that determination was a weaponry inside. He besides aboriginal called the edifice and said determination was a weaponry successful the lobby, according to the report. The suitcase contained a rock, a book a $1 measure and “scriptures” identifying Trump arsenic a “beast,” according to the report.

Lundy told detectives Trump had messed up his beingness for the past fewer years and helium wanted to nonstop him a message, the study said.

Metro’s All-Hazard Regional Multi-agency Operations and Response squad was called to the country and aboriginal cleared the area.

Lundy near the edifice and took a cab to a Motel 6 successful the area, according to the report. Police tracked his telephone and took him into custody.

“Can I get my suitcase backmost from Trump? I told them it’s a bomb, nary 1 got hurt, truthful there’s nary crime,” Lundy told police, according to the report.

Lundy admitted to detectives that helium knew the weaponry menace would origin radical to beryllium alarmed and the gathering to beryllium evacuated, constabulary said.

He was scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Wednesday.

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