Pitt-Bradford Bomb Threat
One of Six Received on Friday
The bomb threat received for Pitt-Bradford’s Hanley Library was one of six received by the university Friday morning.
The main campus received the other five, bringing the total since February 13 to 85, according to The Pitt News, the daily student newspaper.
Pitt-Bradford is the first of the university’s branch campuses to receive a threat. The other branch campuses are in Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville. Pitt-Bradford spokeswoman Pat Frantz Cercone says the Hanley Library threat was similar to those received for the main campus.
Friday’s threat for the Hanley Library was sent by e-mail to Pitt’s main campus and was forwarded to Dan Songer, Pitt-Bradford’s Director of Campus Police and Safety. Kathleen Schreiber, the university’s regional manager of campus police, also called Songer.
The library, which houses the office of university president Dr. Livingston Alexander, was evacuated at just before 11 a.m. After a thorough search of the outside and inside of the building, people were allowed back in at around 12:30.
When the threats started two months ago they were written on restroom walls in Pitt-Oakland buildings. In the last few weeks they have been emailed to the university and to Pittsburgh media outlets. But Friday, a handwritten note was found in a stairwell in the 42-story Cathedral of Learning, where the first threat was delivered two months earlier. The historic building has been the target of about a dozen of the threats.
Pittsburgh’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is working on the case, and US Attorney David Hickton said earlier this week they are making "significant progress." The university is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
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The main campus received the other five, bringing the total since February 13 to 85, according to The Pitt News, the daily student newspaper.
Pitt-Bradford is the first of the university’s branch campuses to receive a threat. The other branch campuses are in Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville. Pitt-Bradford spokeswoman Pat Frantz Cercone says the Hanley Library threat was similar to those received for the main campus.
Friday’s threat for the Hanley Library was sent by e-mail to Pitt’s main campus and was forwarded to Dan Songer, Pitt-Bradford’s Director of Campus Police and Safety. Kathleen Schreiber, the university’s regional manager of campus police, also called Songer.
The library, which houses the office of university president Dr. Livingston Alexander, was evacuated at just before 11 a.m. After a thorough search of the outside and inside of the building, people were allowed back in at around 12:30.
When the threats started two months ago they were written on restroom walls in Pitt-Oakland buildings. In the last few weeks they have been emailed to the university and to Pittsburgh media outlets. But Friday, a handwritten note was found in a stairwell in the 42-story Cathedral of Learning, where the first threat was delivered two months earlier. The historic building has been the target of about a dozen of the threats.
Pittsburgh’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is working on the case, and US Attorney David Hickton said earlier this week they are making "significant progress." The university is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
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