David B, Fein, United States Attorney
for the District of Connecticut, announced that Travail McLean, 19, of New
Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Alfred V.
Covello in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of
supervised release, for making false bomb threats over the telephone.
According to court documents and
statements made in court, on nine separate dates between September 2010 and
June 2011, McLean made a total of 15 false bomb threat telephone calls to the
New Haven 911 call center. All of the threatened locations, which included a
home for the elderly and a police station, were in densely populated areas in
the vicinity of Whalley Avenue in New Haven. Every call stated either that
there were one or more bombs at a particular location or that the location was
going to be blown up.
Each time McLean made a false threat
call, law enforcement emergency response teams promptly responded, cleared the
area of people, and conducted a thorough search for bombs, explosives, and
other dangerous materials.
This matter was investigated by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation Joint Terrorism Task Force and the New Haven
Police Department. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney
Henry K. Kopel.
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