Police arrest a man they say was blasting a similar message to Nashville bomber Anthony Quinn Warner but find no bomb.
James Turgeon (Tennessee Sheriff's Office)
As America continues to digest the harrowing and bizarre details of the RV bomb attack in Nashville on Christmas Day, there are increased fears of copycat crazies.
Cops in Tennessee have arrested a man who they say drove a white box truck and was allegedly blaring a similar message to the Christmas Day bomber Anthony Warner.
James Turgeon, 33, of Holly Grove Road near Murfreesboro was charged with two counts of felony filing a false report and one count of tampering with evidence.
On Sunday, local police and multiple federal agencies surrounded the truck on State Route 10 in Lebanon before sending a robot in to check for explosives. Fortunately, no explosives were found during the check.
A local man, Ronald Davenport, was in the area giving assistance to a friend who had been involved in a car accident when he witnessed a law enforcement in large numbers surround the truck.
“Sirens going off everywhere, piling up down there, then all the sudden they just moved away from the truck and sat back and that’s when I found out it was possibly a bomb,” Davenport told local station WZTV.
“It’s something somebody’s trying to get something going, that’s all I know. It’s either terrorists or somebody trying to make chaos.”
“Just be safe be on the lookout for these idiots just trying to cause chaos,” Davenport said in a warning to his neighbors.
Meanwhile, seasoned cops said that a wave of unhinged people trying to emulate Warner could prove a nightmare for the authorities.
“Copycat issues are horrible because it just puts officers in such grave danger because they don’t know if it’s a false one or a real one,” former local police officer Ken Alexandrow told the outlet.
Spokesman Michael Knight of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said certified explosives specialists and resources from ATF’s National Center for Explosives Training and Research worked with the Tennessee Highway Patrol at the scene.
Detectives found Turgeon allegedly damaged the speaker system wiring intentionally, resulting in the tampering with evidence charge.
The Christmas Day blast outside a Nashville AT&T facility damaged 41 buildings and caused a massive disruption to communications systems that even blacked out 911 centers in surrounding counties.
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