Overview

• Authorities say Bratton Dean Wilkinson told security at ICE’s Dallas Field Office he had a bomb in his backpack and displayed a device he claimed was a detonator.
• The facility issued a shelter-in-place, Dallas police and a bomb squad responded, and officials cleared the scene in roughly 30 minutes.
• Wilkinson, identified as a U.S. citizen, was taken into custody and booked into Dallas County Jail, according to local and federal officials.
• DHS said he was arrested on suspicion of making terroristic threats, while Dallas police listed a Class A misdemeanor charge for false reporting to induce an emergency response.
• Law enforcement officials told CBS News the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Texas is reviewing potential federal charges as DHS points to a sharp rise in threats and assaults targeting ICE, including recent incidents in New York and San Francisco.