Man charged with false bomb threat to elementary school

Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006

By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer
Staff Writer

Authorities charged a man in Taylorsville on Monday with making a bomb threat to an elementary school in Alexander County.

Kenneth Hill, 36, was charged with making a false bomb threat and pleaded not guilty during his first appearance in District Court on Monday afternoon, said Alexander County Chief Deputy Chris Bowman.

Hill was being held in the Alexander County jail on a $25,000 secured bond.
Hill told deputies he was staying with his mother in Taylorsville and that he made the call from her house, Bowman said.

A secretary at Bethlehem Elementary School called the Sheriff's Office at 9:45 a.m. Monday to report that a bomb threat had been called in by telephone, Bowman said. The caller said a bomb would detonate there at 10 a.m.

The school was evacuated while authorities searched the building, Bowman said, but no bomb was found, and students were let back into the building shortly before noon.

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