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American actor TJ Miller called emergency services to falsely claim that a woman he got into an argument with over loud mobile phone conversations on a train had a bomb in her luggage, federal prosecutors said.
The Deadpool and former Silicon Valley actor was arrested at LaGuardia Airport in New York and released on $US100,000 ($129,000) bond after appearing court appearance in New Haven, Connecticut.
Miller is accused of calling in the false bomb information on March 18 after getting into what a railway employee called a "screaming match" with a woman on a train travelling from Washington to New York.
Prosecutors said he at first gave the wrong train number and investigators found no explosives after stopping and evacuating passengers from a train in Westport, Connecticut.
Investigators called Miller back and he said the woman kept checking her bag without taking anything out and seemed to want to get off the train and leave her bag behind.
"I am worried for everyone on that train," investigators said Miller told police. "Someone has to check that lady out."
They stopped and removed passengers from the correct train and also did not find explosives.
Miller wasn't on the train because he was removed in New York by Amtrak staff who suspected he was drunk after consuming multiple alcoholic beverages, prosecutors said.
A train attendant said that Miller "had been involved in hostile exchanges" with a woman in a different row of the first class car over loud mobile phone conversations.
Miller faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
The arrest was not Miller's first brush with the law. He was arrested in Los Angeles in December 2016 after a confrontation with a driver.
In addition to his work on Silicon Valley, Miller has had roles in Search Party, Office Christmas Party and Ready Player One. He will appear in the Deadpool sequel which is scheduled for release next month.
A representative for Miller did not immediately return a call for comment.
AP
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