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Charges: Seattle man grounded Southwest Airlines flight to ruin ex's Vegas vacation

Prosecutors describe bomb threat as part of domestic violence campaign against ex-girlfriend


A Southwest Airlines plane pictured at Sea-Tac Airport. Photo: Joshua Trujillo, Seattlepi.com

A Seattle man grounded a Southwest Airlines flight by calling in a phony bomb threat to ruin his ex-girlfriend's vacation, King County prosecutors say.

Filing felony charges, prosecutors describe the June 18 bomb threat as one piece of a campaign of threats and intimidation by Zachary Milliren. Milliren, 26, is alleged to have threatened to kill the young woman who'd left him days before.

In the weeks before Milliren managed to ground the plane at Sea-Tac International Airport, he'd threatened to stalk and beat the woman, Deputy Prosecutor Mari Isaacson said in charging papers. The harassment hit a fever pitch when Milliren made the bomb threat, Isaacson told the court, which also saw him promise to kill his ex.

"Every day you will be unsafe," Milliren said in one text message to the young woman, according to charging papers. "Just because you're in another state doesn't mean I can't get you."