MDSO: Keys woman instructed ‘men to stay’ behind after making fake bomb threat at MIA

MIAMI – A 21-year-old pistillate was arrested astatine Miami International Airport aboriginal Tuesday greeting aft allegedly claiming she had a weaponry successful her carry-on luggage and instructing women and children to evacuate portion telling men to enactment behind, authorities confirmed.

The incidental unfolded conscionable earlier 6 a.m. astatine the JetBlue summons counters of the airdrome erstwhile the pistillate — identified by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies arsenic Aliyah Evans, of Islamorada — was heard by aggregate witnesses claiming she had a bomb.

Detectives wrote successful an apprehension study that Evans was allegedly holding her cellphone, which displayed what appeared to beryllium a “clock timer,” arsenic she said, " I request children and women to permission and for men to stay."

Deputies said she dropped her carry-on container adjacent the counters and attempted to bypass passengers portion heading toward Checkpoint E.

Customs and Border Protection agents rapidly responded and detained Evans, who was identified by witnesses, according to investigators. A K-9 squad and weaponry squad cleared her luggage, and nary explosives were found, the study stated.

Authorities said the incidental caused impermanent chaos astatine the terminal.

They said Evans knocked implicit lane dividers and created a disturbance that frightened passengers and airdrome staff, prompting delays portion the country was secured.

Jail records amusement Evans is facing 1 number each of making a mendacious study astir planting a weaponry oregon explosive and disorderly conduct/breach of the peace.

She was taken to an MDSO presumption for processing but invoked her close to stay soundless and was not interviewed, deputies said.

As of Tuesday, Evans is being held astatine the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, wherever her enslaved was listed arsenic “to beryllium set.”

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