ABERDEEN — Police charged a man on Wednesday with making a phony bomb threat at Aberdeen Elementary School earlier this month.
Moore County Schools special police arrested 51-year-old Frederick Ledoux Kemmerly of 225 N. Cherry St., Pinebluff, on a charge of making a false bomb report in a public building.
Kemmerly told witnesses there was a bomb on the Aberdeen Elementary campus Jan. 5, according to Daily Journal news partner AberdeenTimes.com.
The bomb threat charge is a Class H felony carrying a presumptive sentence of 5-6 months under North Carolina structured sentencing guidelines. State lawmakers passed a bill in 1999 to increase penalties for both genuine and hoax bomb threats.
Kemmerly was booked into the Moore County Detention Center in Carthage under a $10,000 secured bond and is scheduled to appear in court on the charge Jan. 26. He has no past criminal convictions in North Carolina.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.
