Subcontractor arrested after bomb threat halted Nissan Stadium work

A man who worked for a subcontractor on the new Nissan Stadium project has been arrested in Alabama after police said he sent a text threatening to detonate a bomb at the construction site.

According to the Metro Nashville Police Department, 47-year-old Marque Henderson, who lives in Robertson County, was taken into custody in Lawrence County, Alabama, on warrants charging him with threatening to commit an act of mass violence and making a false report of an emergency.

Police said a manager for Turner Construction Company, the lead company on the stadium project, received a text Tuesday night from someone claiming to be from Saudi Arabia. The message allegedly warned there would be a bomb at the construction site between 6 a.m. and noon that would “blow up the workers.”

Turner Construction notified police and canceled work at the stadium site Wednesday “out of an abundance of caution,” according to the release…

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