US actor and comedian charged with fake bomb threat

He had major roles in Silicon Valley and Deadpool.

US actor TJ Miller has been charged with reporting a fake bomb threat on a train. The Silicon Valley actor called police saying that he saw a woman looking suspicious and said she had a bomb in her bag on a train travelling from Washington DC to New York. According to a statement released by the US Attorney for the District of Connecticut, the 36-year-old initially told officers that the woman had "brown hair and a scarf" and was carrying a device on the train. The BBC reports that when an investigator called him back, he then said the woman had "red hair and a red scarf" and was clutching a black suitcase. He said, according to the statement, that the woman "kept checking her bag without taking anything out" and seemed to want to get off the train without it. "I am worried for everyone on that train, someone has to check that lady out," said the police record transcripts. The officer speaking to him heard slurring in the voice, and when asked if he consumed any alcohol he said, "One glass of red wine." Police officers stopped the train and searched it, but found no device or bomb. Police then said that TJ took part in "hostile exchanges" with a woman in a different row in the same carriage. Mr Miller has been charged and released on bail, however no confirmation on the charges have been announced yet.