Actor and comedian T.J. Miller leaving the immensely successful Silicon Valley after four seasons was certainly an odd and surprising choice — however, it seems that his departure from the show isn’t the only ill-advised decision that Miller has made recently.
In March, Miller apparently called 911 while on an Amtrak train and reported that a woman in a brown scarf was supposedly carrying a bomb in her bag. However, when investigators stopped the train in Westport, Connecticut and deboarded all the passengers, they didn’t find anything.
According to The Wrap, Miller seemed inebriated when he called in the report, and the comedian kept changing his description of the woman who was apparently carrying the “bomb”:
Later, an investigator contacted Miller about his claim. Prosecutors said Miller’s description of the woman was different, and that the investigator detected slurring in his voice. Miller said the woman kept checking her bag — which he described as a “black bag carry on suitcase with a handle” — without taking anything out, prosecutors said. He also said she kept asking the first-class attendant what the next stop was, and seemed to want to get off the train and leave her bag behind, prosecutors added. When asked if he had been drinking, Miller said he only had one glass of wine, prosecutors said.
After investigators spoke to one of the attendants in Miller’s train car, they determined that Miller had definitely had multiple alcoholic beverages and that he had been openly “hostile” towards a woman sitting near him. The woman in question apparently wasn’t even carrying a bag. The attendant confirmed that Miller appeared to be intoxicated at the time.
Miller was consequently arrested at LaGuardia airport on Monday night, charged with intentionally giving false information to law enforcement. He was later released on a $100,000 bail.
The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is currently investigating the case, as are the Connecticut State Police, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department, the Amtrak Police Department and the Westport Police Department.
It’s unclear yet how the case will pan out, but Miller could apparently spend up to five years in jail if he is convicted.