FRACKVILLE - State police at Frackville arrested a Shenandoah man Friday who confessed that he'd made a threatening call to Kmart at Schuylkill Mall on Thursday morning, stating there was a bomb on the premises, police said Saturday.
On Friday, Michael Paul Levandusky, 22, was charged with making terroristic threats and threatening to use weapons of mass destruction. He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Christina E. Hale, Frackville, who set bail at $25,000 straight cash. Unable to post bail, he was placed in Schuylkill County Prison, police said.
Levandusky was still in county prison Saturday, according to a prison spokesman.
Levandusky called Kmart at 7:30 a.m. Thursday and made the threat, stating "There is a bomb in your store and it's set to go off." Immediately, the store and the rest of the Schuylkill Mall was evacuated, police said.
After the Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Emergency and Special Operations Canine Section searched the premises and found no trace of a bomb, the mall was reopened at 1 p.m. Thursday, police said.
Through further investigation, police learned the phone number of the caller, Levandusky. On Friday, police interviewed Levandusky. During the interview, Levandusky admitted that he had made the threatening phone call to Kmart and thought he was just playing a prank, police said.
