Trucker seized after threat to blow up city
From an (hours) older, more informative, article:

Driver accused of blast threat says he was taunted
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Jim Nichols
Plain Dealer Reporter

A Detroit truck driver broadcast a threat to blow up another trucker and detonate a cargo of explosives in Cleveland on Thursday because other drivers were taunting him, the State Highway Patrol said Friday.

Sekou Fofana, 36, was arraigned Friday and held in Lake County Jail on inducing panic charges, said Trooper C.J. Coyne-Hall.

The Ivory Coast native and former New York City cab driver faces penalties for the fourth-degree felony charges ranging from probation to 18 months in prison, and fines of up to $5,000.

Fofana announced over a citizens-band radio that his semitrailer was loaded with explosives and he would "blow up Cleveland," another truck driver told the patrol.

Troopers and officers from five Lake County municipalities pulled over Fofana in Willoughby at 4:43 p.m. Authorities shut down Interstate 90 during rush hour, closing westbound lanes for more than an hour and eastbound lanes for 15 minutes. Trooper Jim Smith, the arresting officer, said traffic backed up for miles in each direction.

A bomb squad searched the truck and found only pallets of magazines.

The panic began when another truck driver called the patrol in Ashtabula County and described a westbound truck and its driver and said the driver was threatening to set off the bombs. Troopers relayed the threat to the Chardon post two minutes before Smith and other police stopped Fofana's truck.

During an interrogation at the Chardon post, Fofana initially denied making the threat and insisted his CB radio didn't work and was turned off, Smith said. When Smith assured Fofana the CB was on and working, Fofana changed his story, Smith said.

Fofana told Smith and an FBI agent that other drivers who heard his voice over the air were making fun of him, saying he sounded like a terrorist, Smith said.

Fofana then told the FBI agent that he wished he were a terrorist so he could harm the mother of another driver, Smith said.

"I think he was just very upset by the things that were said to him," Smith said. "It seemed like he didn't understand that just making threats could be against the law."