BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) -
The man
accused of calling in a bomb threat to LSU, forcing the evacuation of the
entire campus, is scheduled to appear in federal court for a hearing Tuesday
morning.
William
Bouvay Jr., 42, is charged with communicating false information of a planned
bombing on school property.
A
conviction carries up to 20 years in prison.
Bouvay also
faces state charges.
In the
police report from the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office, what Bouvay
said to the 911 operator was recorded.
"Yes,
I've planted three bombs at LSU's school campus. My colleagues planted three
bombs at LSU to go off in two hours if my (pause). This is not a joke. I'm
gonna go there and... (call disconnected)."
According
to the report, detectives tracked the cell phone call to Skysail Avenue in
Baton Rouge. While police were in the area, they found Bouvay.
Detectives
said they questioned Bouvay and he eventually confessed to making the
call. Bouvay also told detectives where they could find the cell phone
used to place the threatening call, the report says.
LSU
police said Bouvay was accused of harassing a professor in the past. His police
record shows arrests for marijuana and a few violations of restraining
orders."Thanks to good old fashioned police work as well as technology, an
arrest has been made," said LSU Police Chief Lawrence Rabalais.
The
campus was evacuated around 11:30 a.m. Monday after officials received a phone
threat. Students that live in residence halls were left waiting for word it was
safe to return.
Officials
said they were left with no choice but to evacuate. Students said they
understood the cautious approach.
When
some 35,000 students, faculty and staff were told to evacuate from campus, the
buildings were quickly cleared, and no one was injured.
It
was traffic that became a major problem.
The
threat came in the wake of bomb scares at several other large universities around
the nation last week.
Residents
living on campus were allowed back into their dorm rooms just after 8 p.m. and
the entire campus was given the all clear around 11 p.m.
All
250 buildings on campus had to be checked first.
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William Bouvay Jr. (Source: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office)
