Man Sentenced for Making Bomb Threat

COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated that Bartholomew B. Hansen, age 29, of Aurora, Illinois, was sentenced in federal court for using the telephone to make a bomb threat to the Shaw Air Force Base Fire Station in Sumter, South Carolina. United States District Judge Cameron M. Currie sentenced Hansen to 12 months and 1 day, which will be followed by 3 years of supervised release.

Evidence presented at the guilty plea hearing established that on March 18, 2007, Hansen made a telephone call from Illinois to the Shaw Fire Station, where he had previously worked. During the call Hansen stated that there was a bomb in the office of the Fire Chief and that the Chief would die. As a result of the threat, the Fire Station was evacuated and operations were shut down for approximately two hours.

The case was investigated by agents of the Shaw Air Force Base Criminal Investigative Division (CID) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Dean Eichelberger of the Columbia office handled the prosecution of the case.

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