Suspect Charged in Bomb Threat at Cyprus CU

SALT LAKE CITY – A local man on Monday was accused of phoning a bomb threat to a Cyprus CU manager, claiming he would "blow up a square mile" around the credit union if she did not give him $100,000.

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The threatening call was traced to a pay phone at the Dollar Tree, where an officer saw the man handle the phone and then drive away in a car with the license plate "SPOPS," according to police. Surveillance footage showed he made two trips to the pay phone.

He is charged with aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony, and terroristic threat, a second-degree felony.


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