The FBI is looking for a man pictured a week ago on video from a surveillance camera using a telephone near Modesto from which a bomb threat to Delta Airlines originated about the same time the footage was taken.
Authorities traced the call to a phone at a truck stop in Ripon, a town on Highway 99 just north of Modesto, according to FBI Special Agent Steve Dupre.
The man pictured at the phone is described by Dupre as "a while male in his mid- to late 50s with receding gray hair and a gray beard. He was wearing a black T-shirt and had a Bluetooth in his right ear."
At approximately 4:40 p.m. PST on Nov. 14, the airline received a call during which the anonymous caller said there was a bomb aboard a Delta flight originating that afternoon in Milwaukee. At the time of the call, the aircraft had already landed at the Greater Cincinnati International Airport and all passengers had gotten off the plane.
A search of the plane failed to turn up an explosive device, Dupre said.
Anyone with information that might help identify the man is asked to call the FBI's Sacramento office at (916) 481-9110, or its Louisville office at (859) 341-3901.
Call The Bee's Denny Walsh, (916) 321-1189.
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