A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with bomb threat hoaxes at a hospital and high school in Southern California.
John Davis, 19, of Phelan, was arrested on suspicion of false bomb threats after authorities responded earlier that day to threats received by Grand Terrace High School, Loma Linda Medical Center and an apartment complex in nearby San Bernardino. All threats were phoned in from the same phone number, according to investigators.
The hoax threat led to an evacuation at Grand Terrace High School, about 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. Students returned to class after a campus search.
At Loma Linda Medical Center, a threat was received just before 11 a.m. The caller said he was "making a bomb and the hospital better be ready," according to the sheriff's department statement, prompting a search at the hospital that ended about an hour later when nothing suspicious was found. No evacuation was ordered during the search, and people at the hospital were allowed to move about freely during the investigation.
Detectives discovered a third bomb threat was made at an apartment complex in San Bernardino. The caller's identification showed the same phone number as the other two bomb threats with the name John Davis, according to the sheriff's department.
Davis was in possession of the phone used to make the threats, according to a statement from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. He was being held on $25,000 bond.
A court date was scheduled for Thursday. It was not immediately clear whether the suspect obtained legal counsel.
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The hoax threats came less than week after another bomb threat was made at the hospital following the mass shooting in San Bernardino. Some of the shooting victims were treated at the hospital.
