Man charged with threat to Amtrak train arraigned

Man charged with threat to Amtrak train arraigned

The Associated Press

GREAT FALLS — A Minnesota man charged with making a threat that led to the evacuation of an Amtrak train in northern Montana pleaded not guilty to federal charges of false information and hoaxes.

The U.S. attorney's office says 24-year-old Hussein Abdi Hassan of Minneapolis was arraigned by U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Holter in Great Falls on Thursday.

An Amtrak spokesman has said Hassan was removed from the Empire Builder train in Browning on Feb. 14 for being unruly. Marc Magliari says Hassan then "somehow threatene...