A 36-year-old man was arrested Monday after reporting to law enforcement that he was going to “blow up” HCA Florida Woodmont Hospital in Tamarac, according to a probable cause affidavit for his arrest.
Guerdouin Montimer, of Tamarac, called Crime Stoppers twice on Monday morning, the affidavit said.
“I am going to blow up this hospital,” he said in a call shortly before 11 a.m., and gave the hospital’s address in the 7200 block of North University Drive. “It was me, Guerdouin Montimer.” Montimer also told Crime Stoppers he was at his home address.
About 20 minutes later, he called again and made the same threat, the affidavit said.
Deputies surveilled Montimer at the home address he gave to Crime Stoppers and followed him to a gas station in the 7000 block of West Commercial Boulevard, half a mile away from his home, where he was arrested, the affidavit said. His home is about two miles away from the hospital.
After he was detained, Montimer told deputies that he called in the threat from his cellphone, the affidavit said. He is facing two counts of making a false report concerning the planting of a bomb, a second-degree felony.
He was held in the North Broward Bureau, a facility where people with special needs and mental health issues are held, as of Thursday afternoon.
