Austin police have arrested a 26-year-old man on charges of making a terrorist threat for emailing a bomb threat that prompted sponsors to cancel a scheduled concert at Austin’s South by Southwest music festival. The threat came amid a series of package bomb explosions earlier this week that put Austin on edge. Two persons have been killed in the attacks and two others have been hospitalized, one person who is 70 years old is in critical condition. Multiple Federal and State police authorities are pouring in unlimited resources in finding and capturing the perpetrator. More than 500 law enforcement personnel among them, the Austin Police Department, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives agency (ATF) and FBI are involved in the investigation. There is a $100,000 reward being offered by Federal authorities and a $15,000 reward being offered by State authorities.
Somehow Trevor Weldon Ingram didn’t get the memo. Police say the messaged threat was received Saturday afternoon at the venue for the concert by the band the Roots. Authorities found nothing suspicious at the site but sponsors, citing safety concerns, called off the show planned for Saturday evening. Police Chief Brian Manley said, “We looked into him and we are not thinking he is involved in this. We have run him through the investigative process.” In Texas, making a threat intended to cause the evacuation of a public building is a Class A misdemeanor unless it causes damages of at least $1,500, in which case it is a felony punishable by imprisonment in a Texas penitentiary, or as the Colombians say, “you will spend a long time in a very unpleasant prison.”
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