Police: Man arrested after threat to blow up bus in Chicago
Posted December 05, 2018 6:00 am
CHICAGO (AP) - Police arrested a man on a Greyhound bus stopped on a Chicago expressway after he threatened to blow up the vehicle.
Illinois State Police said they received a call that a man was threatening to blow up the bus. The bus was headed to Chicago from Milwaukee.
The arrest took place Wednesday afternoon on the Kennedy Expressway.
WLS-TV video footage shot from a helicopter showed state and Chicago police surrounding the bus and a state trooper boarding the bus and bringing a man off. Several officers then wrestle the man to the ground.
The man's name and the charges he might face were not immediately released.
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Information from: WLS-TV.
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