NC woman accused of threatening to blow up Virginia pier - DC Breaking Local News Weather Sports FOX 5 WTTG

A North Carolina woman faces charges of threatening to blow up a Newport News pier.

Police spokesman Harold Eley says 47-year-old Julie Ireland of New Bern, N.C., was arrested after she was found asleep Wednesday in a Newport News park.

Eley tells media outlets that Ireland had been cited for trespassing and littering on a private section of pier property earlier Wednesday when she became irate and threatened to obtain C4 explosives and blow up the pier.