{"id":163692,"date":"2026-03-15T02:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163692\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T02:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:37:09","slug":"ex-memorial-sloan-kettering-cancer-center-employee-arrested-for-bomb-threat-at-nyc-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163692\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center employee arrested for bomb threat at NYC hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A disgruntled ex-employee of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/30\/us-news\/nyc-bus-stop-at-sloan-kettering-cancer-center-piled-with-snow-for-days-thwarting-wheelchairs-cane-users\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center<\/a> was arrested Saturday after walking into the Manhattan hospital and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/14\/us-news\/brazen-would-be-nyc-bank-robber-claims-to-have-remote-controlled-bomb-strapped-to-chest-in-bizarre-stick-up-prosecutors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claiming he was carrying a bomb<\/a>, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The man \u2013 described as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/17\/us-news\/homeless-emotionally-disturbed-stranger-stabs-man-51-inside-nyc-subway-station-during-rush-hour-clash-cops-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an emotionally disturbed person<\/a> \u2013 acted erratically after arriving at the York Avenue hospital on the Upper East Side around 12:05, saying, \u201cI have a bomb in my bag,\u201d the sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38783374\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/general-view-sign-memorial-sloan-86741872.jpg\" alt=\"The sign for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.\" class=\"wp-image-38783374\"  \/>A former hospital worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center was arrested Saturday after making a bomb threat, according to police sources. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38783339\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-police-investigating-throwing-improvised-123106511.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD bomb squad officers investigate a suspicious device in a car.\" class=\"wp-image-38783339\"  \/>The ex-employee was acting erratically as he arrived at the hospital at approximately 12:05, stating, \u201cI have a bomb in my bag,\u201d though after the NYPD bomb squad responded to the scene, they determined it was a hoax. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s bomb squad responded but determined it was a hoax. <\/p>\n<p>The man was carrying a cement statue, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The bomb scare prompted a massive police response.<\/p>\n<p>No other information on the ex-hospital worker was immediately available Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A disgruntled ex-employee of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center was arrested Saturday after walking into the Manhattan hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,17913,1948,75,15478,57,9,24,56,63,65,64,103,466,58],"class_list":["post-163692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-arrests","tag-bomb-threats","tag-hospitals","tag-manhattan","tag-memorial-sloan-kettering","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-upper-east-side","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}