United States-Man arrested over meat plant bomb threat.

UNITED STATES-MEAT PLANT BOMB ARREST.

Police arrested a 19-year-old man Wednesday as part of an investigation into a bomb threat telephoned into Quality Pork Processors in Austin .

According to police, the bomb threat was made at 6:50 a.m. Wednesday. The man was arrested at 5:30 p.m. while walking in southeast Austin . Police tracked him down by tracing calls and getting a search warrant for the subscriber of a particular cell phone.

The suspect denies the allegations, but he has been booked on forgery charges for using a false alias to work at QPP.

The threat led to the evacuation of the QPP facility in northeast Austin about 7:20 a.m. while company officials searched the building with two Austin police officers present, according to the police report.

QPP’s medical department got a message on its answering machine in which the caller said he had placed a bomb in the building and stated "good luck in finding it," the report says.

The caller also said he wasn’t happy with the company and that "the way you treat animals is the way you treat people," the report says.

A QPP official couldn’t be reached for comment.

QPP slaughters about 19,000 hogs a day, with all of the fresh meat processed at the facility going to Hormel Foods Corp., whose flagship plant is adjacent to QPP.

More than 1,300 people are employed by QPP.