Latest Bomb threats News

Man arrested in Peru to face charges over hoax bomb threats to US schools, synagogues, airports

Oct. 02, 2023 15:50 PM EDT

New York (AP) — A man was arrested in Peru after U.S. officials say he sent 150 bomb threats to U.S. school districts, synagogues, airports, hospitals and to a mall last month, according to Department of Justice officials. Investigators said Eddie Manuel Núñez Santos of Lima,...

Woman pleads guilty to calling in hoax bomb threat at Boston Children's Hospital

Sep. 28, 2023 16:40 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts woman pleaded guilty on Thursday to calling in a fake bomb threat to Boston Children’s Hospital as it faced a barrage of harassment over its surgical program for transgender youths. Catherine Leavy, who was arrested last year at her home in...

Man convicted of bomb threat outside Library of Congress sentenced to probation after year in jail

Sep. 15, 2023 17:20 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man whose bomb threat near the U.S. Capitol forced evacuations and sparked an hourslong standoff with police in 2021 was sentenced to five years of probation Friday. Floyd Ray Roseberry was experiencing a mental-health crisis at the time of the threat, and...

Lil Nas X documentary premiere delayed by bomb threat at Toronto International Film Festival

Sep. 10, 2023 16:06 PM EDT

TORONTO (AP) — The premiere of the documentary “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero” was delayed after a bomb threat was called in at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Saturday night premiere of the film at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall was delayed by about 20 minutes while...

Massachusetts man pleads guilty to bomb threat aimed at then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs

Aug. 11, 2023 19:59 PM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to sending threats two years ago to Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs when she was the secretary of state, the U.S. Justice Department said Friday. James Clark, 38, entered a guilty plea to one count of sending a communication...

Italy investigates train tunnel intrusion and bomb threat as the possible work of anarchists

Aug. 09, 2023 14:18 PM EDT

ROME (AP) — Italian investigators are considering whether a tunnel intrusion and a bomb threat that stopped high-speed trains between Florence and Bologna was the work of anarchists, Italian state TV said Wednesday. Train traffic was suspended for more than four hours Tuesday...

Accused of bomb threats they say they didn't make, family of Chinese dissident detained in Thailand

Jul. 27, 2023 02:57 AM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — When Gao Peng landed in Thailand on July 3, he was not expecting to be accused of making bomb threats, to be put on an EU travel blacklist, or to see his mother and 16-year-old sister detained and threatened with deportation back to China. But bomb threats made in...

Kansas football lineman charged in connection with alleged bomb threat

Jul. 25, 2023 20:29 PM EDT

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — University of Kansas football offensive lineman Joseph Krause made his first court appearance Tuesday after he was charged with allegedly making a bomb threat that prompted the evacuation of a stadium. Krause has been charged with making an aggravated...

Passenger fearing 'powerful cartel' made bomb threat on Seattle-bound flight, documents say

Jul. 06, 2023 23:23 PM EDT

SEATTLE (AP) — A passenger aboard an Alaska Airlines flight from Atlanta to Seattle Wednesday is accused of making a bomb threat that caused pilots to land the plane in Spokane, Washington. Documents filed in U.S. District Court said Brandon Scott, 38, faces a false information...