UPDATE: Driver in custody after bomb threat closed I-85 in Greenville County

GREENVILLE CO., S.C. (WOLO) — Highway Patrol says a driver is in custody after a bomb threat caused I-85 to shut down in Greenville Thursday.

According to troopers, at approximately 2:45 p.m., a SC State Transport Police officer initiated a traffic stop on a tractor-trailer near mile marker 44 due to a missing license plate on the trailer.

Authorities say that’s when the driver, 28-year-old Ahmad Jamal Khamees Alhendi of Oak Lawn, from Illinois, indicated that there was an explosive device inside the commercial vehicle.

All six lanes of I-85 were subsequently shut down for hours as the threat was investigated by the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, SLED, and the FBI.

Investigators say no explosive devices were located and all lanes were reopened at approximately 7:40 p.m. on Thursday, January 2.

Alhendi was taken into custody at the Greenville County Detention Center.

He is being charged with false information about a bomb threat, and breach of peace.

The tractor-trailer was registered to Globe Transportation out of Illinois.