UAPD provides details in threat investigation, response to campus bomb scares

[Ian David]

Bomb threat e-mails released
UAPD provides details in threat investigation, response to campus bomb scares
Joe Habbyshaw
Issue date: 9/18/07 Section: News

Over the first three weeks of the fall semester, bomb threats were e-mailed to the University of Akron, causing buildings to close, classes to be cancelled and forced room-by-room searches.

One man has been arrested and charged with two felonies for the threat on Kolbe Hall, but the rest remain unsolved. In recently released police reports, the descriptions of the events, actual e-mails and how the UA police department tracked down the suspect responsible for the Kolbe Hall incident are explained.

"A booby-trapped bomb is in your facility," the first e-mail to the Auburn Science and Engineering Center said. "It will explode when found, if moved or even touched."

Julie Anderson, a college program specialist for the engineering dean's office, received the first e-mail threat on Aug. 29. She discovered another e-mail the following day.

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