Half brother of golfer Tiger Woods
arrested over bomb threat
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[December 14, 2013]
PHOENIX (Reuters) — U.S. golfer
Tiger Woods' half brother was arrested for making a bomb threat to the
Arizona state government building where he works, in what he described
as a joke, Phoenix police said on Friday.
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Earl Dennison Woods Jr., 58, threatened to blow up an Arizona
Department of Economic Security building in downtown Phoenix on
Thursday, said police spokesman Sergeant Trent Crump.
Woods was jailed on suspicion of one count of misdemeanor use of an
electronic communication device to terrify, intimidate, threaten or
harass, Crump said.
"The call came from a cellphone, and the caller stated that he had a
bomb and he was going to blow up the building," Crump said.
Woods was released from jail late on Thursday, a Maricopa County
sheriff's official said. Terms of his release were not immediately
available and he could not be reached for comment.
A spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office said Woods had
not been formally charged with a crime.
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"The department can confirm Mr. Woods is a DES employee," said Tasya
Peterson, a spokeswoman for the agency. "He was involved in an
incident that occurred yesterday at one of our offices. The
department is reviewing this matter and is unable to release more
information at this time."
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Police said they were alerted to the bomb threat by building
security after the office's front desk received the call. About
100 workers were evacuated as a precaution and the building was
searched.
Crump said Woods came forward to management during the search
and "admitted that he was the one who called in the threat and
that it was done as a joke."
Woods also told police the threat was a joke and later said the
same thing to a local television station upon his release.
It was not immediately clear if he has a lawyer.
A state economic security spokeswoman had no immediate comment.
(Reporting by David Schwartz; editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and
Leslie Gevirtz)
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