A man was arrested in Dallas Monday night after he allegedly walked to an entrance of an ICE facility and told officials he had a bomb in his backpack, the Department of Homeland Security said in a news release Tuesday.

Bratton Dean Wilkinson, a 35-year-old US citizen, arrived at the entrance of the Dallas Field office at 6:37 p.m. local time, showing a security officer a device on his wrist he claimed was a detonator, DHS said. The location houses the Dallas Field office and Enforcement and Removal Operations, they said.

A shelter-in-place was issued for the facility and local police responded with a bomb squad, which was able to clear the scene about 30 minutes later, they said.

Wilkinson was taken into custody by local law enforcement and charged with making terroristic threats, DHS

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