CHESAPEAKE
A grand jury will hear the case against Mark L. Jackson, a 41-year-old Great Bridge man accused of making bomb threats last year to a variety of public places.
During a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Chesapeake General District Court, Judge Robert Carter found sufficient evidence to send the case to the grand jury for possible indictment. Jackson faces seven felony counts of phoning in bomb threats.
The alleged threats, made in August and September, caused traffic jams and forced the evacuation of a shopping center, a high school and city courthouse buildings. According to fire investigators, the threats were to the Great Bridge Bridge, Great Bridge Shopping Center, Great Bridge High School, Greenbrier Mall and the city’s courts.
The calls were traced to several pay phones in the Great Bridge area, around the Battlefield Boulevard and Cedar Road intersection, according to Deputy Fire Marshall Greg Orfield. Investigators found witnesses who saw the pay phones being used those days. Those witnesses gave investigators information that led them to Jackson, Orfield said.
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Not "nice" just common sense
The whole thing about not using radios and cell phones also total nonsense, otherwise there would be munitions going off everywhere all of the time. A bomb maker could never even complete a bomb if that were true. We are inundated with electromagnetic interference from power lines, radio stations microwave ovens, cars etc. Just more stupid "security" garbage equivalent to confiscating nail clippers at the airport.
Gary
Nice Gary, I do agree with all your suggestions, except when there is bomb threat it is hard to communicate at first. For safety reasons, cell phones and two-way radios must not be used. So it is back to the land lines. I could see how communications could slow down.
No kissing if threat was real
Step 1 isolate the area NOT STOP PUBLIC WHERE THREAT IS LOCATED I was stuck between the bridge and the shopping center right in the epicenter Step 2 - Inform public in area (we had to call friends in CPD to find out what was going on) Step 3 minimize the affected area and communicate to the "officers" what areas can be cleared or evacuated. That's right off the top of my head. The so called experts did nothing but cause more congestion and more victims if the threat was genuine. The caller obviously new local government was inept because he got the disruption he wanted.
Gary
What would you have done? and if there really was a bomb and it went off. You would be still kissing your wife becasue she was stuck in traffic away from the area.
Good Example of poor emergency planning in chesapeake
It was total grid-lock the day this happened. My wife had to speak to three different police officers, all of them rude, not one knew what to do other than stop traffic. Many residents were trapped in the area. I just hope we don't have to depend on Chesapeake officials to stop the chaos when the next natural disaster or emergency hits