Man Who Threatened To Bomb Yale New Haven Hospital Pleads Guilty: Feds

NEW HAVEN, CT —A Rhode Island man who threatened to bomb Yale New Haven Hospital in May 2021 pleaded guilty in federal court this week, according to the Justice Department.

Alexander Bradley, 44, formerly of Cranston, RI, admitted guilt in U.S. District Court Monday and faces up to 15 years in federal prison, according to Connecticut's US Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery.

The announcement was made by Avery and Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI, Robert Fuller.

According to Avery, court documents and statements made in court, on May 9, 2021, Bradley called the Yale University Health Clinic, spoke to a nurse and asked if he had reached the Yale New Haven Hospital. Avery said that when he was told he'd not, Bradley, who refused to give his name, complained that he had been denied care at the Yale New Haven Hospital and said he was going to bomb the hospital. Around 30 minutes later, Bradley anonymously called the Hospital and said he put a pressure cooker containing a bomb outside the building, prosecutors said. The call was a hoax, and Bradley had placed no such bomb outside the hospital, according to Avery.

The Justice Department noted that the bomb threat "disrupted hospital operations and required a significant response from the New Haven Police Department, Yale Police Department and Yale New Haven Protective Service."

Federal investigators learned that the phone number used to make the threats was linked to Bradley, Avery said. And, that, less than three weeks after he made the bomb threat to YNHH, he called a CVS pharmacy in RI and said that he was going to “shoot up” and “blow up” a hospital, per prosecutors.

Bradley was arrested April 28, 2022 and a month later, on May 27, while released on bond and living in a residential treatment facility, Bradley removed his location monitoring bracelet and absconded, the US Attorney said. Bradley has been detained since his rearrest on July 14, 2023, she said.

Bradley, who pleaded guilty to conveying false information about explosives, and false information and hoaxes, faces up to 15 years in prison when he's sentenced March 7, 2024.