A Florida man allegedly made a false bomb threat at a Home Depot after being approached by a loss prevention officer for shoplifting , telling the worker he had explosives in his backpack while asking him, "Can you smell it?"

Timothy Aviles, 37, allegedly "pulled out a pack of lighters from his pocket" after exiting the hardware store and asking the question, and then acted as if he would be igniting something, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Law&Crime.

"Fearing that the individual was going to use the lighters to ignite a device, the loss prevention officer took the lighters from the individual," the complaint says. "The loss prevention officer contacted a Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office deputy who was working an off-duty detail at the business."

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