Downtown Seattle Bomb Scare: Man Arrested with Attached Device

by Amy Judd | March 12, 2010 at 10:27 am

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A Man Arrested in Downtown Seattle Friday Morning With Device Strapped to His Arm

Downtown Seattle, near the King County Courthouse, experienced what is being called a bomb scare on Friday morning when a man was spotted wandering around the streets with a device strapped to his arm with wires coming out of it. According to the Seattle Times, he was also heard to be making threats.

USA Today reports that the man had electrical tape wound around parts of his arms and legs.

The man has now been taken in to custody and the device is being examined, but at this time it is not known if it is a bomb.

The police started receiving calls around 8am local time that a man was wandering around the 300 block of James Street with this suspicious device and making threats. The man was dressed all in black.

A nearby apartment resident, Justin Anderson, says he saw the man walking down the street, pacing in circles, and playing with tape that held a pipe to his arm.

The man's actions closed the area around Third Avenue and James Street and he had previously gone in to the Union Gospel Mission according to the Seattle pi.

The man obeyed police when they asked him to lie on the ground just before 9am local time. USA Today reports that two bomb robots were sent towards the man before any people approached him to take the safest precautions possible.

The bomb squad is now investigating the device.