MDSO: Keys woman instructed ‘men to stay’ behind after allegedly making fake bomb threat at MIA

MIAMI – A 21-year-old woman was arrested at Miami International Airport early Tuesday morning after allegedly claiming she had a bomb in her carry-on luggage and instructing women and children to evacuate while telling men to stay behind, authorities confirmed.

The incident unfolded just before 6 a.m. at the JetBlue ticket counters of the airport when the woman — identified by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies as Aliyah Evans, of Islamorada — was heard by multiple witnesses claiming she had a bomb.

Detectives wrote in an arrest report that Evans was allegedly holding her cellphone, which displayed what appeared to be a “clock timer,” as she said, ” I need children and women to leave and for men to stay.”…

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