Tiger Woods' half brother arrested, accused of making bomb threat

Tiger Woods' half brother, Earl Dennison Woods Jr., was arrested Thursday after police said he called in a bomb threat to an Arizona Department of Economic Security office in Phoenix.Woods, 58, worked at the office and admitted to supervisors that he called in the threat as a joke, authorities said.Phoenix police responded at about 8:30 a.m. to the DES building at 1824 E. McKinley St. after a caller — later identified as Woods — said that he had a bomb and was going to blow up the building, said Sgt. Trent Crump, a Phoenix Police spokesman.The building was evacuated and searched, but nodevice was found.During the search, Woods admitted to management that he called in the threat and he had done so as a joke, Crump said, adding that Woods repeated his admissions to authorities during an interview.Woods was booked into a Maricopa County jail on suspicion of use of an electronic communication device to terrify, intimidate, threaten or harass, which is a misdemeanor.Kraklio also writes for The Arizona Republic in Phoenix.