By Tom Olsen
Local News
DULUTH, Minn. — A St. Louis County Jail inmate pleaded guilty Monday to using a jail phone to call in bomb threats to transportation and governmental agencies, prompting a search of buses in Duluth and the Twin Cities and an evacuation of the Minnesota Department of Revenue building in St. Paul.
Clayton James Hanks, 33, pleaded guilty to three felony counts of terroristic threats during an appearance in State District Court in Duluth. In separate cases, he also entered guilty pleas to second-degree burglary and issuing a forged check, both felonies.
Judge Mark Munger ordered a pre-sentence investigation and scheduled sentencing for Aug. 18.
Hanks was being held at the jail on the burglary and forged check charges when he phoned in the bomb threats Oct. 14, according to the criminal complaint.
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