An Orange County man was arrested after police in Lake County said he called in a bomb threat to a restaurant to get his friend out of work.
The Lady Lake Police Department said on Sunday afternoon Anthony Borrell, 28, from Ocoee, called the Gators Dockside Restaurant in Spanish Springs and told the manger he had placed a bomb in the restaurant.
Police evacuated the building and a bomb detection dog was called in to search the building but no bomb was found and the restaurant reopened for business.
Investigators said they learned that Borrell placed the call from a pay phone near his Ocoee home in an attempt to get his female friend, a waitress at the restaurant, out of work for the day.
Detectives spoke with Borrell and he turned himself in at the Lady Lake Police Department on Thursday.
Borrell was charged with False Report of Planting a Bomb and booked into the Lake County Jail with a bond of $4,000.