Arrest tied to threat to blow up DHS unit in Little Rock

Mahmoud Ali Abdi
Mahmoud Ali Abdi

Police on Monday arrested a Little Rock man accused of threatening to blow up a state Department of Human Services building if he did not get to see his child, according to court documents.

Mahmoud Ali Abdi, 46, was arrested Monday morning at his Little Rock apartment at 7820 W. Capitol Ave., according to a police report. A different police report listed his first name as "Mahmound."

Officers were called Thursday to the DHS building at 1105 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, according to an affidavit.

Police spoke with a DHS employee who said Abdi entered the building and became "very belligerent." The employee told police that Abdi threatened to blow the building up if he did not get to see his child. An arrest report said the DHS had his son in custody.

The department told police that Abdi said: "I don't want it to get ugly. I know where my kid's foster home is, and I know where he goes to school."

The affidavit said the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force was notified of the threat.

Police charged Abdi with one count of terroristic threatening. He was listed on Pulaski County jail's inmate roster Tuesday afternoon.

Metro on 06/07/2017

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