T.J. Miller Arrested for Allegedly Calling in a Fake Bomb Threat

[BigRichard]

Guy has went off the deep end or something...

Todd Joseph "T.J." Miller was taken into custody Monday night at LaGuardia Airport, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

The former Silicon Valley star was arrested for allegedly "intentionally conveying to law enforcement false information about an explosive device on a train traveling to Connecticut," according to a press release from authorities. Miller allegedly made the bomb threat on March 18.

According to United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, the 36-year-old comedian and actor allegedly called 911 and told the dispatcher he was on Amtrak Train traveling from Washington, D.C. toward Penn Station in New York City and that a female passenger “has a bomb in her bag.”

The train Miller identified was stopped in Connecticut at Green’s Farms Station in Westport. All passengers were kicked off and bomb squad members searched the area. "No evidence of any explosive device or materials was detected," according to authorities. It was later discovered that Miller was on a different train.

The attendant on Miller's actual train stated that he "appeared intoxicated upon boarding in Washington, that he consumed multiple drinks on the train, and that he had been removed in New York owing to his intoxication. The attendant also advised that Miller had been involved in hostile exchanges with a woman who was sitting in a different row from him in the first class car," according to the release.

Miller appeared Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven and was released on a $100,000 bond, according to authorities. The charge carries a maximum term of imprisonment of five years.

The case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, Connecticut State Police, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department, Amtrak Police Department and Westport Police Department.

Miller, who starred on the half-hour comedy for four seasons as wannabe tech mogul Erlich Bachman, exited the HBO show after creative differences emerged between the actor and showrunners Mike Judge and Alec Berg. "It just wasn't working," Judge told THR, remarking about the split between Miller and the show in a cover story on March 7.

A request for comment from Miller's rep was not immediately returned.





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[Simply Red]

Boom!

[Hamwallet]

I thought it was a BS excuse HBO made when they wanted him off Silicon Valley... guess they really did see him coming unraveled.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Hamwallet

I thought it was a BS excuse HBO made when they wanted him off Silicon Valley... guess they really did see him coming unraveled.

Dane has the 411 on all of that in the Silicon Valley thread.

[Eleazar]

Who?

[Hamwallet]

Originally Posted by Eleazar

Who?

https://youtu.be/Yh9O9ETuF_0

[wazu]

Originally Posted by Hamwallet

https://youtu.be/Yh9O9ETuF_0

That was pretty good.

[chinaski]

Originally Posted by Hamwallet

I thought it was a BS excuse HBO made when they wanted him off Silicon Valley... guess they really did see him coming unraveled.

I believe he has a major drinking problem and he may have had some sort of sexual assault thing going on with the #metoo stuff. Not 100% on that though.

That said, he was great on the show.

[PunkinDrublic]

The story’s actually funnier than any of the hacky jokes he’s ever told.

[Strongside]

He wore a chicken Annie’s shirt on live television once. Nothing he could ever do would bring me to dislike him.