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The St. Lucie News-Tribune
Vero Beach man accused of having a bomb, planning to take it to an airport
Lina Ruiz, Treasure Coast Newspapers 16 hrs ago
VERO BEACH — A Vero Beach man was arrested early Sunday morning after a relative told police the man had a bomb he was planning to bring to an airport, officials said.
Michael Ferris, 39, was taken into custody after police received a call at about 7:40 p.m. Saturday reporting a suspected bomb threat on a boat anchored north of Vero Beach Municipal Marina in the Indian River Lagoon, said Officer Darrell Rivers of the Vero Beach Police.
City police contacted the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office bomb squad after finding what appeared to be an explosive device on Ferris' backpack while escorting him off his boat, Rivers said.
The device, Ferris told officials, was a “dummy type of bomb” with two butane canisters, one gallon of water and wires wrapped in duct tape. He also said he suffered from mental illness, and that there was a person inside his head named “Rudy” who was “brainwashing him through LSD and psychotherapy.”
The relative who reported Ferris said he sent her a video saying he had made a bomb and was going to take it to an airport, Rivers said. Officials did not know what airport he planned to take it to.
Ferris was booked into the Indian River County Jail early Sunday without bail on a charge of making, possessing, throwing, projecting, placing or discharging any destructive device.
He also said he suffered from mental illness, and that there was a person inside his head named “Rudy” who was “brainwashing him through LSD and psychotherapy.”