NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A Massachusetts man was arrested Sunday after he allegedly made a bomb threat before boarding a JetBlue flight leaving Charleston International Airport.

Units were called to Jet Bridge A6 at 10:49 a.m. after a bomb threat was reported by a passenger boarding a JetBlue flight to Boston.

Officers arrived and spoke with the flight crew, who said the suspect, identified as Chad Svatosky, made comments to several passengers stating, “everybody needed to grab their pitchforks and torches because the plane was going to get lit up,” according to an incident report from the Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department.

Other passengers also reported hearing Svatosky state he had a bomb. Officers boarded the flight after the crew and passengers had been r

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