A resident of a North Texas mental hospital has been charged with threatening to blow up two federal courthouses.
A federal complaint accuses Christopher Stephens of making the threats against the U.S. courthouses in Dallas and Fort Worth in three telephone calls to Wichita Falls 9-1-1 in March. The FBI said it received a similar threat in late March, signed this time by Stephens.
The 34-year-old resident of the North Texas State Hospital in Wichita Falls has been ordered detained pending a probable cause-and-detention hearing. That hearing has not been scheduled.
Conviction of one count of mailing a threat to blow up a federal courthouse is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Prosecutors have 30 days to present the case to a grand jury.
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