HAMLET — A man in jail on an impaired-driving charge is accused of making a fake bomb threat.
Police responded to Sandhills Regional Medical Center early Wednesday after receiving a call from emergency communications about a man who claimed that there were three pipe bombs on each floor of the hospital, according to Detective Lt. Heather Wyatt.
After responding, Wyatt said police requested the assistance of a bomb-detecting dog from the Fayetteville Police Department. The K-9 officer and Hamlet officers cleared the building, finding no bombs.
Following an investigation, police charged 35-year-old William Curtis Moore with making a false bomb threat as to a public building, a Class H felony.
Moore, of Palisade Circle in Rockingham, was already in jail on charges of driving while impaired, driving while license revoked and resisting a public officer.
Online court records show Moore already has a pending misdemeanor charge of assault on a female.
According to the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction, Moore has an extensive criminal record from the Triad area dating back 12 years.
From 2003-07, Moore was convicted of several misdemeanors — financial card fraud, failing to return rented property, three counts of violation of a protective order, assault with a deadly weapon, carrying a concealed weapon, unauthorized use of motor conveyance, and communicating threats — in Forsyth County.
In 2007, he was also convicted on a misdemeanor larceny charge and a felony charge of possession of a counterfeit controlled substance.
Later that year, he spent two months behind bars following an assault and battery conviction in Guilford County.
Moore’s most recent conviction was in 2009 on a Forsyth County felony — larceny of a motor vehicle — where he served just over nine months in prison.
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