Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood airport reopens after bomb threat; man arrested, BSO says

Deputies arrested a man who claimed he had a bomb in his bag at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Tuesday morning, prompting an evacuation in parts of the facility, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.

Deputies ordered the evacuation of the lower and upper levels of Terminal 4 while they did a security sweep, the sheriff’s office said around noon.

The sheriff’s office gave the all-clear two hours later after determining the man, Angel Orlando Fernandez-Garcia, 35, did not have a bomb…

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