Unhappy man accused of threatening wife with fake bomb

A Florida man who was angry with his soon-to-be ex-wife wife left a fake bomb on her kitchen counter.

Randolph Troy Smith, who is in the process of becoming divorced from his wife, also placed notes alongside a grey high tension fuse jack. “This is a explosive,” Smith wrote in red ink. “It’s a bomb. Boom.”

Smith’s wife discovered the notes and the device at about 9pm on Thursday at their home in Vero Beach, and called authorities. Deputies cordoned off the home and had the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad check out the pipe.

Bomb squad members determined it was not a real bomb and Smith later told deputies that it was meant as a hoax. Smith, 51, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, planting a hoax bomb and resisting arrest without violence. He is being held at the Indian River County Jail in lieu of $11,000 bail.