Hip Hop Star Helps Tackle Man Claiming to Have Bomb at LAX

KTLA
Thursday, January 8, 2009

LOS ANGELES — A 45-year-old Kentucky man was in custody today after allegedly claiming he had a bomb aboard a flight at LAX that had just arrived from Atlanta.

The plane touched down just before 10:30 a.m. and as it was taxiing “at some point he lunged for one of the doors.” Eimiller said. Several passengers tackled the man and he was bound with plastic devices, Eimiller said. One of those passengers was a member of a hip-hop band from Atlanta.

Chris Llewellyn, who plays bass and guitar in Asher Roth’s band, says he heard a male flight attendant in the rear galley yell, “Help me, help me!”

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“We were all sitting in our seats,” Llewellyn said. “My boys had their headphones on. I turned around and got up and ran to the back of the plane.” He said six other passengers also ran to help.

“The suspect was yelling, ‘Don’t come near me, I have a bomb, I have a bomb!’ ” Llewellyn said. Passengers had him cornered in the back of the plane when he suddenly lunged for the rear emergency exit door.

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“We all jumped him,” the guitarist said. “He was struggling hardcore. I was holding down his arm. Somebody had a foot on his head. Everyone was holding down a different body part. He was going nuts. I was telling him to chill because he’s not going anyplace.”

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