High Senior Arrested; School Bomb Threat Alleged

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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.

USF Student Arrested In Bizarre Gunman/Bomb Probe

A strange case unfolded Monday on  the USF campus, beginning with a report of an armed gunman on campus.

A chilling alert went out Monday at University of South Florida: “Armed intruder on campus at the library. Officers are on scene searching the area. Avoid the area and report anything suspicious.”

Students watched police storm the school library with guns drawn as the campus remained on lock-down.

Authorities arrested Vincent Thomas-Perry McCoy on a university shuttle bus after he stood up and proclaimed he was the man authorities were looking for. Witnesses said he claimed to have a bomb; he faces charges of making false claims and remained in jail late Monday.

At the end of the day, authorities didn’t know if McCoy was connected to the initial report of a man with a gun near the library. If the suspect truly was on campus, he slipped away. If it was a hoax, police are looking into that too.

“We have to take it seriously every time,” said USF police Lt. Meg Ross. “Until we know otherwise, we have to treat it as a real situation.”

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FBI Investigates Airline Bomb Threats

Federal agents are investigating bomb threats that appear similar but may not be connected. Both occurred along the Boston and Miami routes, since Sept. 18, according to officials in both cities.

The Boston herald reports, FBI Special Agent Judy Orihuela confirmed FBI agents in Miami interviewed two crewmembers last night from a Boston-to-Miami flight that was delayed by three hours after a flight attendant found a bomb threat scrawled inside the jet bathroom. The threat read “Bomb on Board. Boston to Miami.”

A Boston-bound flight on the same route had to return to Miami International Airport 40 minutes after takeoff on Sept. 18 after a flight attendant found a threatening note in the jet’s bathroom. The word “bomb” was used in that note, too.

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Columbine-Style Attack Averted At San Mateo’s Hillsdale High School

UPDATE: Police in San Mateo, California, said Monday that “a potentially very drastic event” at a high school was averted when school personnel subdued a former student who walked into the school armed with pipe bombs, a chainsaw and a 2-foot-long sword.

“It had the potential to be a catastrophic incident,” said police Lt. Mike Brunicardi, describing the incident in which two pipe bombs exploded and at least 1,200 students and faculty were evacuated from the Northern California school.

No one was injured in the incident, police said.

Brunicardi said a 17-year-old former student wearing a nylon vest packed with 10 homemade pipe bombs entered Hillsdale High School in San Mateo about 8 a.m. Monday. He detonated two devices, with smoke setting off the school’s fire-alarm system, before two teachers confronted him.

“The suspect was quickly wrestled down by a teacher who, with the help of the principal and another teacher, were able to hold him down until police arrived minutes later,” Brunicardi said.

The suspect’s intentions were not clear, police said.

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Former student set off pipe bomb. Police flooded the campus of Hillsdale High School in San Mateo Monday morning. Students were seen leaving the area by the hundreds after authorities canceled classes for the day following an explosion on campus.

The students gathered at a large black top area behind Abbott Middle School about a block away from the school. That is where the school told parents to pick their children up from school.

Police were called to the school at 8:07 a.m. after reports that someone brought a gun on campus. While police were on their way, they heard the report of an explosion.

The assistant superintendent for the district Kurt Black said a former student set off some kind of explosive device inside the school. He said it didn’t do any damage and nobody was hurt. Black said the teachers knew the student and somehow were able to take hold of him until police arrived. He is now in police custody.

One student who was on campus described the sound of the explosion as “a thousand M-80s going off.”

Another student said her teacher ordered everyone to get under their desks after he noticed smoke in the hall. That girl said she saw a guitar case, a chainsaw, a pipe and some brown liquid in the hallway as she ran out of the school.

Someone else said he saw a kid running down the hall carrying pipe bombs in his arms with a counselor running after him after he heard what he described as an explosion.

KTVU is quoting a source that says police found more than one pipe bomb on campus.

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LaGuardia Airport Reopens After Bomb Scare

Authorities temporarily closed one of the terminals at New York’s busy LaGuardia airport on Saturday morning and took a man into custody after discovering what turned out to be a fake bomb in his bag.

Most of the airport’s main terminal was closed at 5:30 a.m./0930 GMT and travelers were allowed to return about 3 1/2 hours later. Jack Kelly, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said the terminal’s Concourse C, where the man was taken into custody, would remain closed until a crime scene investigation had been completed.

Kelly described the suspect as emotionally disturbed and said his bag contained batteries and wires. A police bomb squad was called in and local media reports described the bag’s contents as a fake bomb that was not dangerous.

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Counter-terrorist Authorities Seize Bomb Equipment

Australia - Suspected bomb-making equipment along with suspicious powders and liquids were removed from a Newcastle unit, where police found a man allegedly hiding out in the roof.

Police locked down a suburban street, saying they were treating the discovery with maximum precaution as they sealed off the area and evacuated neighbours while bomb detection specialists tested the substances.

A 23-year-old man found in the unit was arrested in dramatic scenes after he fled and hid in the roof cavity of the New Lambton Heights building, shortly after midday.

He was charged with malicious damage to a police vehicle pending more tests on the house today.

The Herald Sun understands police went to the house to evict the occupant. A real estate agent asked police to do it on their behalf because they had concerns.

Police sniffer dogs were led through the house and yard to track down the man, who is believed to have been found hiding behind boxes and rubble in the roof area.

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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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Bomb Scare At Motor City Casino – Suspicious Devices Found

UPDATE: A 70-year-old Eastpointe man has been arrested after police say he left seven suspicious packages in the Motor City Casino garage Sunday.

After more than six and a half hours, Detroit police and Homeland Security officials allowed customers to retrieve their cars from the Motor City Casino parking garage.

The bomb squad detonated three suspicious devices out of at least six Sunday evening.

The items were discovered in the parking garage about 4:30 p.m. by a casino security guard.

The finding prompted police to sweep Greektown and MGM Grand Casinos with K-9s as a precaution; however, nothing was found.

None of the packages at Motor City turned out to be explosives; however, authorities were not revealing the contents of the parcels.

For about an hour and a half after the discovery officers weren’t letting people out of the building.

Later, they allowed customers to leave but they could not get their cars from the garage because of the ongoing investigation.

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Suspicious Pipe-Like Device Found Taped To Airport Fuel Truck

Middleton,Wis. – The Dane County Bomb Squad disarmed a suspicious device found taped to the side of a fuel truck at the Middleton Airport on Sunday.

Middleton police said a suspicious man was seen driving a black Ford F-150 pickup truck around the hangars and fuel pit around 8 a.m. on Sunday. The man left after being confronted by airport personnel.

The same man was seen again in the area of the airport gate. The airport employee reported seeing the truck speed away westbound on Airport Road.

Authorities said around 4:30 p.m. a suspicious pipe-like device was observed affixed to the side of a fuel truck at the airport. The fuel truck was in close proximity to other fuel storage tanks.

All flights were diverted from the airport, and the surrounding area was evacuated by Middleton Police and Fire.

The Dane County Bomb Squad took the pipe-like device to an open field to render it safe.

Authorities are looking for the man driving the black truck earlier in the day. That man is described as being between 5 feet 7 inches and six feet tall with a medium build, black hair and a beard.

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Oklahoma City Bomb Threat Shuts Down Federal Office

An ex-convict is being blamed for a bomb threat that shut down the federal office building near downtown for hours Wednesday.

Federal employees were evacuated after the 12:30 p.m. bomb threat, officials said. Oklahoma City police blocked off nearby streets as bomb technicians worked to check a backpack left at the building and a car parked outside.

“This is a major disruption,” FBI spokesman Gary Johnson said. “It is affecting all of downtown.”

Police arrested Roderick Robinson, 30, of Oklahoma City at Walker Cos., a few blocks east of the federal building, about 30 minutes later.

The bomb threat shook up workers in an area devastated in April 1995 when a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The office building evacuated Wednesday was built to replace the Murrah Building.

“It was unnerving,” said Sue Stephens, an office manager of the Walker Cos., where Robinson had used the phone.

The car and backpack were cleared, the FBI said about 10 p.m. No explosive devices were found.

The FBI alleges Robinson gave two threatening handwritten notes to a security guard at the entrance of the federal building. One note claimed a bomb was in the backpack and the other claimed a bomb was in a gray car outside, according to the FBI.

“Both notes said, basically, ‘Give me money’ and ‘You have five minutes,’” Johnson said. “There are some indications he may have written one or both of the notes outside the federal building prior to entering.”

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UC Davis Researchers Face Bomb Threats

An animal rights group has claimed that it has sent letter bombs to two University of California, Davis researchers, the school said.

The UC Davis Police Department, Davis Police Department and other agencies are investigating the claim, and no suspicious packages have yet been detected.

The claim was made late on Saturday in a posting on an activist Web site, but the group was not named by authorities. Police notified the two researchers named in the posting — both who are affiliated with the California National Primate Research Center — early on Sunday morning.

“Such threats against our researchers are unacceptable, and we condemn them in the strongest possible terms,” said Stan Nosek, vice chancellor for administration at UC Davis, who is responsible for oversight of animal research and care on campus.

The university advised all researchers, faculty and staff to be vigilant in handling and opening mail, and to look out for suspicious packages, such as parcels that are unusually shaped, wrapped with a lot of tape or have excess postage.

via NorCal University Faces Bomb Threat – NBCBAYAREA- msnbc.com.

Passenger Arrested For Bomb Threat At St. Louis Airport

An airline passenger was arrested after authorities say he made a bomb threat when flight attendants asked him to close his laptop computer before takeoff.

The man was on board a United Express flight to Washington Saturday afternoon at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Airport spokesman Jeff Lea said that when attendants asked him to close his laptop, “he mentioned a bomb or made a bomb threat.”

Police were called, and the man was arrested. The flight was delayed more than two hours while police searched the plane for explosives but nothing was found.

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$50,000 Reward For Info On John Amos Power Plant Bomb Threats

Officials with the John Amos Power Plant are offering a $50,000 reward for information about the people responsible for a string of bomb threats against the Putnam County plant.

John Amos has received five threats within the last four weeks, with the most recent on Monday, said Joe Haynes, the plant’s community-relations manager.

The plant also received threats on Oct. 23, 24, 28 and 30, he said.

“The Oct. 23 one was phoned in to one of the contractors,” Haynes said. “The others were written on the walls of bathroom facilities in graffiti. Once somebody sees it and reports it we have to take it seriously.”

This is not the first time the Appalachian Power plant, which is an operating unit of American Electric Power, has received bomb threats.

Employees were evacuated twice last summer after threats were found written on the walls in the plant’s bathroom, Haynes said.

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department, the State Police and the FBI are involved in the investigation.

A bomb threat is defined as a “threat of terrorist acts,” which is a felony offense under state law and is also a federal offense. Under state law, a person found guilty can be fined from $5,000 to $25,000 and sentenced to one to three years in jail.

State Police swept the plant’s parking lots on Thursday, Haynes said, and a number of drug-related citations were issued. State Police would not comment Tuesday and directed media inquiries to the plant.

Haynes said police theorize that individuals are making the threats to avoid submitting to random drug testing. He said all plant employees and contractors are randomly tested.

There are about 3,000 contractors working at the plant to install a scrubber within the plant’s power-generating unit. There are also about 400 Amos, AEP and independent workers on site.

The threats were made by people “on the inside,” Haynes said.

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