Former star of the hit TV series, “Silicon Valley,” T.J. Miller was arrested Monday night at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York, according to officials.
Miller is facing a federal for allegedly calling in a bomb threat while riding the Amtrak Train. Officials said that the actor is under investigation for, “intentionally conveying to law enforcement false information about an explosive device.”
Falsely reporting a bomb threat is NO joke. Miller, 36, appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in Connecticut on Tuesday. He was released from jail on a $100,000 bond. However this case is far from closed. He still has to appear in court for the charges against him and could face the maximum felony charge of five years in prison. More on that law can be found by clicking HERE.
To make the situation worse, Miller was heavily intoxicated at the scene. This hasn’t added any charges to his case, however it is on record with several witnesses on the train able to confirm what they saw. What passengers on the train saw was Miller getting into a drunken disagreement with a female passenger.
According to a press released from the Department of Justice Miller called the 9-1-1 dispatch service during his ride through New Jersey. He reported to the operator that he was on Amtrak 2256 traveling from Washington D.C. toward New York City. He claimed that the female passenger had a, “bomb in her bag.”
Amatrak Officials stopped the train in Connecticut to search for explosives of any kind. None were detected on Amtrak Train 2256.
When an investigator called Miller back, he gave a different description of the woman, according to the DOJ statement. The statement also says that the comedian claimed that the female passenger in question, “kept checking her bag without taking anything out; kept asking the first-class attendant what the next stop was, and seemed to want to get off the train and leave her bag behind.”
Later it was discovered Miller had given the wrong Amtrak Train number. He was actually on train 2258. That train was also searched upon discovery and still, no explosives were found.
Officials asked an attendant from the train car where Miller had been sitting what they saw. The attendant said Miller appeared to be intoxicated at the time and made “hostile exchanges with a woman who was sitting in a different row from him in the first-class car.”
This isn’t the first time Miller has been involved with law and scandal. He exited “Silicon Valley” amid ‘creative differences’ with the show-runners amidst sexual assault and substance abuse allegations.
