Man pleads guilty to threats at N.B. school

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A Cygnet man indicted in connection with a threatening letter sent to North Baltimore schools last fall
pleaded guilty Tuesday.
Dwight Bower, 57, appeared in the courtroom of Wood County Judge Robert Pollex. He pleaded guilty to a
single count of inducing panic, a second-degree felony.
Bower was arrested without incident in October following a joint investigation that involved North
Baltimore police, the Wood County Sheriff’s Office, the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and
Identification and the U.S. Postal Service.
Bower had reportedly sent "an anonymous letter with a non-specific threat" received by
Superintendent Marlene North on Oct. 3. A subsequent forensic examination of the letter led authorities
to Bower later that month.
There was heightened police presence at the village schools following the incident, but the schools were
not closed and ran as scheduled. The district has security systems in place, as well as a school
resource officer.
Bower is to be sentenced on July 15 at 11 a.m.

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