{"id":51498,"date":"2025-11-18T18:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51498\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:16:07","slug":"bomb-threat-leads-to-evacuation-at-florida-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51498\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb threat leads to evacuation at Florida airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVideo above: Body of missing Port St. Lucie child recovered in neighborhood lakeA man is in custody in Broward County in relation to a bomb threat. The Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Tuesday that it detained a man after he claimed he had a bomb in his bag at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.The sheriff\u2019s office said as a precaution, the lower level and upper levels of Terminal 4 were evacuated while deputies conduct a security sweep.Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 NewsThe sheriff\u2019s office\u2019s bomb squad unit is at the scene and has secured the bag. The sheriff\u2019s office said at this time, the incident has not affected airport operations, and an investigation is ongoing.The airport issued the following advisory: &#8220;An ongoing security-related investigation is impacting access to pre-security public areas of the arrivals and departures levels of Terminal 4 only. Law enforcement personnel are diverting airport guests to unaffected terminal areas. We appreciate your patience and cooperation during this ongoing investigation.&#8221;This is a developing story and will be updated as information becomes available.Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Video above: Body of missing Port St. Lucie child recovered in neighborhood lake<\/p>\n<p>A man is in custody in Broward County in relation to a bomb threat. <\/p>\n<p>The Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Tuesday that it detained a man after he claimed he had a bomb in his bag at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said as a precaution, the lower level and upper levels of Terminal 4 were evacuated while deputies conduct a security sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Your neighborhood: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/local-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local coverage from WPBF 25 News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office\u2019s bomb squad unit is at the scene and has secured the bag. The sheriff\u2019s office said at this time, the incident has not affected airport operations, and an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The airport issued the following advisory: &#8220;An ongoing security-related investigation is impacting access to pre-security public areas of the arrivals and departures levels of Terminal 4 only. Law enforcement personnel are diverting airport guests to unaffected terminal areas. We appreciate your patience and cooperation during this ongoing investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: Body of missing Port St. Lucie child recovered in neighborhood lakeA man is in custody in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[32544,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-51498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-bomb-threat-leads-to-evacuation-at-fort-lauderdale-airport","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51498","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=51498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}