Crime & Safety
Man Arrested for Making Bomb Threat at Courthouse
The 72-year-old Alexandria man is being held without bond.
Fairfax County Police arrested a man Wednesday after making a bomb threat at the County Courthouse, located right in downtown Fairfax City.
County Police responded shortly before 7:30 a.m. to a reported bomb threat at the courthouse, located on Chain Bridge Road near the intersection of Main Street.
"Officers, detectives and deputies quickly developed information that led to the identification and arrest of 72-year-old Joe Edwin Honesty of Alexandria," Fairfax County Police reported.
Honesty was located inside the courthouse, and appears to have been there "on an unrelated matter," police said. He was apprehended and, conveniently, escorted right next door to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center.
Honestly has been charged with making a bomb threat and held on no bond.
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Authorities said they do not believe that an explosive device ever existed in this case.
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