One man has been arrested for making a false bomb threat against Southwest Florida International Airport, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. <\/p>\n
According to an incident report, a call was made on Monday, May 12, 2025 at 8:49 a.m.<\/p>\n
It was disconnected.<\/p>\n
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office says dispatchers received a total of three calls where the call was immediately disconnected.<\/p>\n
Deputies say when an attempt was made to make voice contact, someone was heard breathing on the other line and pushing buttons.<\/p>\n
Minutes later, dispatch says they received a call from the same telephone number from a man stating
“There’s a bomb at Southwest Florida International Airport. It’s gonna detonate in 2 hours.”<\/p>\n
The call was immediately disconnected; however it was recorded.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office say deputies immediately contacted the Lee County Port Authority Police Department to report the incident.<\/p>\n
David Michael Smith was charged with two counts of threat to bomb – false report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man has been arrested for making a false bomb threat against Southwest Florida International Airport, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-44080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44080","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=44080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}