Man admits telling CIA officers: 'I have a bomb'

WASHINGTON - A man who used a snow plow attached to his pickup truck to ram a gate outside CIA headquarters pleaded guilty to making a bomb threat.

After CIA Security Protective Service officers surrounded Antoine Lowery, 30, of D.C., at the Virginia headquarters on Feb. 22, 2008, he told them at least three times that the truck would explode.

According to a statement of facts filed with his plea agreement, he used phrases that included "the truck is going to blow up" and "I have a bomb." He also counted down from five to zero several times.

Lowery faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine when he's sentenced Aug. 8.

(Copyright 2008 by WTOP. All Rights Reserved.)