Horseshoe Casino security searched for bombs after threats received
Hammond IN June 3 2019 A warrant has been issued for a Chicago man who’s been charged with false reporting and harassment after he allegedly made a bomb threat to an area casino in February.
A probable cause affidavit said that Hammond Police responded around 7:15 pm Feb. 4 to a bomb threat made to Horseshoe Casino Hammond. Casino security told police that the threat had first been called at 7:07 p.m. to Horseshoe’s corporate office in Las Vegas but was then transferred to Hammond, the affidavit said.
The male caller told the telephone operator in Hammond that he’d put a bomb in the bathroom, court records state. When the operator asked him where he was, he said, “I’m at the boat,” and that “Everyone will be dead in 12 minutes.” When the operator asked the man how he knew, the caller said, “Because I put it there,” according to the affidavit.
Police and boat security searched all the bathrooms but found no incendiary devices, court records state.
Hammond Police later spoke to an Indiana Gaming Commission official, who said a man called and left a message asking to speak to a woman employee, the affidavit said. The caller, identified as former Horseshoe employee Deangelo Lamil Armstead, 28, made derogatory comments toward her and other employees four times that evening, according to court documents.
It was later revealed, according to the affidavit, that the woman for whom Armstead was asking is his ex-girlfriend, with whom he has a child, documents said. The gaming official said Armstead also had been leaving harassing calls for several months prior to the bomb threat, court records state.
Armstead has been charged with a count of false reporting, a level 6 felony; and a count of harassment, a class B misdemeanor. His bond has been set at $15,000.
