CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- An Arlington librarian was arrested after he allegedly made a verbal bomb threat to MBTA employees while riding on the Red Line.
David S. Toomey, 43, was taken into custody after train employees notified the police, who met the train at Alewife MBTA station in Cambridge Thursday morning. Toomey was arrested without incident.
"We got a call that a person was making bomb threats in Alewife station," Lt. Sal Venturelli of the Transit Police said. "Our units responded. We encountered this individual, whom I cannot identify at this point. The investigation will continue. It's a white male, 35 years of age. He is reported to be a librarian in Cambridge somewhere. He allegedly made statements that he had a bomb, and he was making threats to the train crew. We responded, we found the individual with a backpack, separated him from the backpack, and performed the necessary actions to make that backpack safe."
The bomb squad arrived and detonated the backpack.
Toomey will be chaged under the Massachusetts Anti-terrorism statute for making terrorst threats and disorderly conduct.
The scare caused travel delays for hours.
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