Police: Man threatened to blow up Tropicana Hotel and Casino
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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — On Wednesday around 8:48 a.m., a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer was dispatched to the Tropicana Hotel and Casino because of a call referencing a subject leaving a restaurant without paying inside the hotel.
Details of the call said that a male told a hostess that he owed the building and he would blow it up according to the arrest report.
Police spoke with a security guard. The guard said that they recognized him from the day before on surveillance cameras. Security then took the male who was later identified as 61-year-old James Rummel.
Police took Rummel in for terroristic threats. The arrest report also says that Rummel threatened to kill the officer if he was taken to the hospital or the Clark County Detention Center.
Rummel was taken and booked at CCDC according to police.
