JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Tennessee man has turned himself in for making a bomb threat against a Mississippi university.
Jackson State University officials said Christopher Ashleigh Jones turned himself in to university police on Wednesday. Officials tell WJTV-TV that the 20-year-old is a Memphis, Tennessee, resident who has a girlfriend who attends the university.
The bomb threat was made Friday against a dormitory at Jackson State.
Jones is being held at the Hinds County jail on charges of false reporting of an explosive device.
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University spokesman L.A. Warren says Jones admits making the bomb threat. Warren says he doesn’t know if Jones has a lawyer to speak for him.
Jones could face up to 10 years in prison.
Dee McClendon, the university’s assistant university police chief, says the university won’t tolerate false threats.
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Information from: WJTV-TV, http://www.wjtv.com