Juvenile admits to bomb hoaxes |
| April 30, 2012 |
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A Naples 12-year-old who confessed to sheriff's
deputies in March to placing two calls to 911 to
report a bomb in an unspecified school has also
admitted his guilt in court. Jacob W. Fletcher, who is not a public school student, made his initial court appearance April 23, where he admitted as true two counts of making a false report of an explosive. Were he an adult, the charges would be felonies, punishable by up to five years in prison on each count. The two calls were placed on consecutive days March 18 and 19; because no specific school was named, all five Boundary County schools were evacuated and students sent home early. The March 19 threat was not deemed credible as authorities were already closing in on the suspect. Investigators said the youth has no connection to eight other bomb hoaxes perpetrated in both the high school and middle school earlier this year; one other youth, also 12, has been charged in one of the cases at the middle school. An adjudication hearing on the two charges to which Fletcher admitted to has been set for 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9, before Judge Quentin Harden. |