High Senior Arrested; School Bomb Threat Alleged

Sign On Diego reports that a senior at Ramona High School who told friends and others that he was going to blow up the school with homemade bombs made of C-4 explosive and hand grenades was arrested early Sunday.

Korey Flad, 19, faces charges that include threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction, threatening a school and making criminal threats, the department said.

Ramona sheriff’s Detective Mike McNeill said no explosives or grenades were found at Flad’s home.

It was all talk, McNeill said. As far as investigators can tell, he did not have any access to C-4 or grenades. “He was remorseful, cooperative, forthcoming, honest and compliant,” McNeill said.

Flad does not have any history of trouble with authorities, McNeill said, adding that he comes from “a regular middle-class home. There were no family problems.”

via Ramona High senior arrested; school threat alleged – SignOnSanDiego.com.

Teen To Be Tried As An Adult For Bomb Threats

Federal prosecutors say a teenager from Oxford is a celebrity in an online prankster world in which conspirators, for nominal fees, make bomb threats to high schools, universities, federal offices and other places and then broadcast the results live to a select audience.

In indictments issued this week by a federal grand jury in Indiana, prosecutors accuse Ashton Lundeby, 16, of making or helping make bomb threats in at least a dozen states from his home computer since last year. In some cases, prosecutors say, Lundeby and unnamed co-conspirators would collect fees to lodge bomb threats at high schools and middle schools with the goal of closing school for the day.

Federal prosecutors call it “Swatting,” the act of making a false emergency report that frequently prompts responses from special weapons and tactics, or SWAT, teams. They say Lundeby and the co-conspirators used pseudonyms and elaborate computer gaming techniques to disguise their voices and identities, then transmit threats and watch live through video surveillance and webcams as law enforcement teams responded.

via Teen to be tried in bomb threats – Local & State – News & Observer.

Man Had Homemade Bomb, Threatened School

A man was found to be carrying a homemade bomb early Saturday morning after allegedly making threats to blow up a school, police said.

Jason Babson, 29, was found carrying a homemade explosive device by Hudson Falls police at 1:34 a.m. Saturday after making a run from authorities, police said.

Police were called after Babson had a dispute with two other residents, where he allegedly said the CIA, police and fire departments were all corrupt and that he would blow up a school on the 4th of July. He fled the scene before police arrived but was later found, questioned, and found to be acting strange, police said. He was in possession of the bomb and some fireworks.

Babson later said in a statement he had built the device to use for the holiday but changed his mind and was going to throw it into the Feeder Canal, close to where police found him.

Sargeant Scott Moulthrop said Babson was a lifelong Hudson Falls resident, but also lived in Pennsylvania. As a geologist, he worked with a contracting firm on projects in the Middle East and was set to go overseas again soon, Moulthrop said.

He was charged with third degree criminal possession of a weapon and illegal possesion of fireworks. He was arraigned and sent to Washington County Correctional Facility with no bail, his next court appearance is Tuesday.

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