SF Man Accused of Making Bomb Threat to Save Truck from Towing
Police in San Francisco arrested a 36-year-old man Tuesday who, they say was so furious over his truck being towed, that he allegedly made a bomb threat.
San Francisco Department of Parking and Traffic officers called a tow truck to remove the man's pickup truck from Sargent and Phelan streets at about 3 p.m.
Police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza says the man had multiple unpaid parking tickets.
Esparza says as the tow truck was leaving with the truck, the owner arrived and began arguing with the DPT officers, and allegedly assaulted one of them.
The man then allegedly made a threat that caused the tow truck driver to pull into a nearby City College of San Francisco parking lot at 50 Phelan St.
Esparza says he claimed that there were explosives in the back of the truck.
A San Francisco police bomb squad arrived and determined that some packages found in the rear of the truck were not explosives.
Police have not released the man's name.
