Bomb threat and pursuit lead to charges in Boardman

BOARDMAN — A Meadowbrook Avenue man faces multiple charges after he’s accused of threatening to detonate a bomb.

Jeremy Sweet, 31, didn’t have a bomb but was lodged in the Mahoning County jail on felony charges of fleeing, extortion, hoax weapon of mass destruction, and making false alarms.

About 7:20 p.m., police got a 911 call from a man later identified as Sweet threatening to detonate C4 explosives he had wired to his car if his demands weren’t met. He said he was traveling west on U.S. Route 224.

Sweet told a dispatcher that teachers at an area school district were teaching students how to make crack and he wanted a high school student with a computer so he could expose the crimes, a police report said.

He said that if he didn’t get a student with a computer he would detonate the bomb, hurting as many people as possible. He then ended the call.

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