11/30/12 - There will no more jail time for a Farmington Hills man who admitted to making a bomb threat at Oakland Southwest Airport in New Hudson last year. 64-year-old Randolph Lee Trager was ordered to serve two years of probation this week following his guilty plea in July in federal court in Detroit to possession of an explosive device at an airport. The incident began on November 13th of 2011 when Oakland County Sheriff deputies were called to the airport on a report of a suspicious subject. Trager and a companion told the deputies they had seen a man tampering with a door lock who fled when they approached him. They said he also dropped a brown plastic bottle with a threatening note. Trager then provided a license plate of the car the suspect had fled in. FBI agents traced the plate to a New Hudson man, whom they then interviewed. He denied knowing anything about the device, but did say his ex-wife and Trager were friends and suspected Trager was trying to set him up. When agents re-interviewed Trager and his companion, the second man finally admitted he had been lying and that Trager had planted the device, which contained fireworks powder, in an attempt to get the New Hudson man in trouble. Trager had initially been held in custody without bond, but was eventually granted bond due to health problems. (JK)
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