Crime & Safety
Cherry Hill Man Arrested, Charged in East Bomb Threats
Alex Carson faces multiple charges related to the incidents.
A 20-year-old Cherry Hill man who admitted to calling in bomb threats to Cherry Hill East on Wednesday and Thursday has been arrested and charged, Cherry Hill Police said.
Alex Carson, of the unit block of Banner Road, was taken into custody Thursday, police said, and confessed to making both threats, which prompted an evacuation of the high school after school Wednesday.
Carson, who attended East during high school, was charged with two counts of terroristic threats and two counts of creating a false public alarm, and was released on a summons.
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His first appearance is scheduled in Superior Court in Camden on Nov. 21.
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