Public Safety Threat Made By Former BWI Airport Employee

HANOVER, MD — A former employee at BWi Thurgood Marshall Airport was arrested Wednesday after making threats of mass violence near the airport. Officers patrolling the area responded to the Pinnacle Cargo H Building shortly before 4 a.m. for reports of a terminated employee making threats, according to court records obtained by the Baltimore Sun.

A supervisor on staff notified officers that the former employee, Donaye Belle Jr., had been fired earlier in the evening for attendance issues. Officers were told by witnesses that Belle had promised: “I will be back on the 14th to light this (expletive) up."

The witness told officers she believed Belle planned to return Feb. 14 and blow up the building with a bomb, the Baltimore Sun reported. More than 100 employees were in the Pinnacle building when he made the threat. Belle was charged with one count of threatening arson and one count of a threat of mass violence.