Created: 1/28/2005 8:05:28 AM 
By Mark Spain First Coast News
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- A man is in custody after Jacksonville police linked him to a Super Bowl-related bomb threat found on the voice mail of city council president Elaine Brown.
"The person that made the call seemed very calm," said Brown.
A man who said his name was Albert Strickland left a cell phone number police traced to Albert Ray Strickland, 56, at an address in Hyde Park.
He was charged with threatening to discharge a destructive device. No bomb was found.
In the call to city council president Elaine Brown, a man described himself as a scientist intent on stopping the Super Bowl, that he believed in the Big Bang theory and was "obsessed with the size it needs to be."
He said he was also in town to charge Jacksonville officials with attempting to kill him.
He told Brown he wanted Mayor John Peyton and any other city officials connected to law enforcement to resign.
A woman claiming to be Strickland's sister called First Coast News and said, "My brother has never owned a gun and is not violent. He has not been taking his medication." She would not say what medication her brother was taking.
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