{"id":175591,"date":"2026-03-02T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/175591\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:41:08","slug":"new-york-man-arrested-for-bomb-threat-at-florida-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/175591\/","title":{"rendered":"New York man arrested for bomb threat at Florida airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVideo above: News and weather headlines for Monday, March 2, 2026An elderly man is behind bars after making a threat at a South Florida airport.The Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed on Monday that Robert S. Albanese, 76, of Lindenhurst, New York, was arrested on Sunday and charged with a false report of a bomb explosion and criminal mischief over $1,000.Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 NewsThe sheriff\u2019s office said on Sunday just before 10 a.m. its deputies responded to a report of a bomb threat in Terminal Four on a JetBlue aircraft at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.When the deputies arrived, they took Albanese into custody for making a bomb threat.The aircraft was briefly evacuated as a precaution, while a Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office K-9 dog determined there was no bomb on the plane.Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.The sheriff\u2019s office noted there was no disruption to airport operations.Albanese is being held in the Broward County Jail without bail.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Video above: News and weather headlines for Monday, March 2, 2026<\/p>\n

An elderly man is behind bars after making a threat at a South Florida airport.<\/p>\n

The Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed on Monday that Robert S. Albanese, 76, of Lindenhurst, New York, was arrested on Sunday and charged with a false report of a bomb explosion and criminal mischief over $1,000.<\/p>\n

Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 News<\/a><\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s office said on Sunday just before 10 a.m. its deputies responded to a report of a bomb threat in Terminal Four on a JetBlue aircraft at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRobert S. Albanese<\/p>\n

When the deputies arrived, they took Albanese into custody for making a bomb threat.<\/p>\n

The aircraft was briefly evacuated as a precaution, while a Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office K-9 dog determined there was no bomb on the plane.<\/p>\n

Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s office noted there was no disruption to airport operations.<\/p>\n

Albanese is being held in the Broward County Jail without bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: News and weather headlines for Monday, March 2, 2026An elderly man is behind bars after making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[5071,83077,83074,4920,83072,4561,83076,28209,249,251,250,83075,217,83071,83073,115,42414,660,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-175591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-a-m","9":"tag-albanese","10":"tag-bomb-explosion","11":"tag-bomb-threat","12":"tag-broward-county-sheriff","13":"tag-deputy","14":"tag-false-report","15":"tag-florida-airport","16":"tag-fort-lauderdale","17":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","18":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","19":"tag-jetblue-aircraft","20":"tag-monday","21":"tag-new-york-elderly-man-arrested-for-bomb-threat-at-fort-lauderdale-airport","22":"tag-new-york-man","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-newsthe-sheriff","25":"tag-office","26":"tag-wpbf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}