The adventurer reportedly threatened federal officers - first displaying two knives, then threatening to 'blow himself up.'
After taking a look at his vessel, which they said was ‘afloat as a result of wiring and buoys,’ they determined his trans-Atlantic trip was a ‘manifestly unsafe voyage,’ according to a criminal complaint.
Coast Guard officers asked Baluchi to disembark onto their ship, but he instead insisted that he was armed with a 12-inch knife and threatened to kill himself if they tried to remove him. ‘USCG officers believed this to be a valid threat, as they observed Baluchi holding wires in his hand,’ the criminal complaint reads.
A day later, Baluchi told officers attempting to deliver him food and water that the bomb was not real.
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