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Teen Pleads Guilty to Phony WIU Bomb Threats
The Chicago teenager accused of making a series of what turned out to be phone bomb threats to Western Illinois University last year has pleaded guilty.

Federal court records indicate 18-year old Cameron McKoy pleaded guilty in Peoria Monday to a single count of Making a Bomb Threat, and saw several other similar charges dropped in exchange.

McKoy was arrested in November of last year, initially on state charges, and formally stood accused of making one telephone threat to Tanner Hall.

But authorities later linked him to at least eight other such threats to Tanner and other halls, and claim he used an internet-based automated phone system to make the others -- all things he is believed to have admitted to.

The computer McKoy used to make the internet-based threats, and where he had set up a Facebook page called "WIU Hacker," was traced back to a family member's Chicago home, which is where he was taken into federal custody from.

McKoy is scheduled to be sentenced August 8th. He could face as much as a decade in prison.


(Cameron McKoy. WGIL News File Photo.)
04 26 11 by Newsroom
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