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Bomb threats draw sentence
POCATELLO - A Gate City man who called in several bomb threats to a local television station earlier this year was sentenced to five years in prison Monday.
Theodore A. King Jr. was arrested in February after he called KPVI Channel 6, a local NBC Affiliate, and left threats that bombs were set to go off at several local bars. King was charged with felony false reporting of explosives in a public or private place. Sixth District Judge Ronald E. Bush sentenced King to three years fixed in prison and two years indeterminate for making the false threats. King was also sentenced by Bush Monday to three years in prison on an unrelated felony charge for writing checks with insufficient funds, to be served concurrently with his explosives sentence.
Bush then retained jurisdiction over King and sent the defendant on a 180-day rider. Under the retained jurisdiction program, the defendant is sent to a facility in Cottonwood where he receives treatment for what is considered the underlying cause of his criminal activity. Upon completing the 180 days in Cottonwood, the defendant comes back to the sentencing judge who then sends him to prison to complete his sentence or places him on probation. The decision is based largely on a report of the defendant's behavior at the Cottonwood facility.
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