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Man Pleads Guilty in Connection to Hoax Bomb Threat at Big Spring HS
Man Pleads Guilty in Connection to Hoax Bomb Threat at Big Spring HS 3/3/13
CBS 7 News
March 3, 2013
Big Spring - The man responsible for calling in a hoax bomb threat to Big Spring High School plead guilty in a Lubbock court room Friday.
Jordan Weston Hamilton of Big Spring pleaded guilty to a federal charge of false information and hoaxes from the bomb threat he made back in December 2012.
Weston faces a maximum statutory penalty of five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
According to documents filed in the case, Hamilton called the Howard County 911 Emergency Call Center at approximately 10:05 a.m. Dec. 17.
He later admitted he intentionally conveyed false and misleading information to the emergency call center by stating there was a bomb in the big spring high school science room.
However no bomb or device was found.
Big Spring Police say the call was made using a dead cell phone.