Teens receive probation for making bomb threat

Kenny Wayne Roberts, 18, of Jameson, and a relative who is not a student at the school, Matthew Shain Kohler, 17, of Derby, Iowa, pleaded guilty in Harrison County Circuit Court to a reduced felony charge of making a false bomb threat. The pair previously had been charged with a Class C felony of making a terrorist threat.
Roberts and Kohler were arrested after a note was left in an office at the Gilman City school containing the words “bomb threat at Gilman City” and “bomb threat at school.”
The students and the staff were evacuated from the school, while officers from the Alcohol Firearms and Tobacco Agency, the Highway Patrol and the Bethany Sheriff’s Department searched the building with a bomb-sniffing dog.  No evidence of explosives was found.
The two young men made separate appearances in June before Judge Jack Peace, who accepted their guilty pleas to the reduced charges. The teenagers received suspended sentences and were placed on probation for five years.