Charges filed in PA bomb threat case
July 2nd, 2009 - 5:45am
(Port Angeles) -- Prosecutors have filed formal charges against a Port Angeles man accused of making a bomb threat.
Charges were filed yesterday against 40-year-old Johannes Laurence Helgeson, IV in Clallam County Superior Court. Prosecutors had a deadline yesterday to file the charges or release Helgeson.
In court papers, Prosecutors say Helgeson admitted dialing 9-1-1 from his residence Sunday, playing a pre-recorded statement.
Helgeson allegedly claimed to be an Aryan extremist who had planted 6 explosive devices in the Safeway stores and Wal-Mart in Port Angeles 7 days earlier.
No explosives were found.
Helgeson has been ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation and is being held in the Clallam County jail on 5-thousand dollars bail.
The defendant's mother told the court earlier this week she was not comfortable with her son being cleared back into her house without his medications.
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