Arizona authorities have arrested an 18-year-old Laquint Cherry, a Phoenix man, who was held in connection with a bomb threat that was tweeted after the Jodi Arias verdict was announced. Maricopa County Sheriff's Deputy Joaquin Enriquez said that Cherry was taken into custody early Thursday, and faced with a felony charge for making threats, the Associated Press reported.
The investigation began Wednesday night after someone tweeted that an explosive device was going to be placed in the courtroom set for detonation on Thursday afternoon. The sheriff's office increased security and conducted additional bomb sweeps but found nothing.
Enriquez said that detectives traced the Twitter activity to a hotel in west Phoenix. The bomb squad and the SWAT team responded, and Cherry eventually came out of the hotel room. A woman who was with him was questioned and released.
Enriquez has said the the investigation is ongoing.
It wasn't immediately clear if Cherry had legal representation.
An Arizona jury Wednesday found Jodi Arias guilty of first-degree murder for killing Travis Alexander in June 2008.
The trial was filled with lurid details of sex, lies and violence. The panel, which had started deliberations on Friday, found Arias guilty of premeditated first-degree murder in the 2008 slaying of her one-time boyfriend Travis Alexander.
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