D.C. man admits making 2 Amtrak bomb threats

Published August 21, 2012 4:00am ET



A 27-year-old District man pleaded guilty Wednesday and admitted to making two separate, false bomb threats against Amtrak, officials said.

Michael Jerome Dennis admitted to making threats in telephone calls to Amtrak’s National Communications Center on Nov. 30 and Jan. 19, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The calls each warned of a bomb going off at the New York Avenue NE bridge just north of Union Station. Dennis was working for a contractor at a site near the bridge at the time, and officials said that every Amtrak train from the Northeast Corridor that goes in and out of Union Station passes under the bridge.

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