Passenger Calls in Fake Bomb Threat at DFW After Being Late for Flight

A DFW Airport passenger was arrested after he called in a bomb threat when he was four minutes late for his flight, police say.

Preetham Muscr, 30, of North Richland Hills, was booked into jail Saturday and released Monday on a charge of false alarm or report, a state jail felony.

DFW Airport police received a 911 call about 9:30 a.m. Saturday reporting a bomb threat on an aircraft at gate E11, according to a court document.

Preetham told officers an unknown person told him there was a bomb on the plane but then backtracked and said he may have “imagined what he heard,” police said.

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