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LOGAN, Utah (AP) -- A fired E.A. Miller Inc. truck driver has been arrested on s suspicion of threatening to burn down the Hyrum beef-processing plant.
Cache County Sheriff's investigators arrested Thomas Michael Carrick, 38, at his home in Logan Tuesday and he was booked for investigation of Class-A misdemeanor stalking and Class-B misdemeanor threatening life and property.
Sheriff's Lt. Dave Bennett said threats to burn down the building allegedly were made in three phone calls to former employees in the last two weeks.
Police were notified after a call to the plant Tuesday in which Carrick allegedly threatened to commit suicide.
Carrick had been driving for E.A. Miller since October 2000. Jim Herlihy, a spokesman for E.A. Miller's parent company, Swift and Company, said Carrick was fired in February.
Herlihy would not say why Carrick was fired.
Carrick was held on $7,955 bail.
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