Man pleads guilty to bomb threat made to thwart traffic stop

 

March 27, 2019



CARTHAGE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man accused of calling in a bomb threat to a high school to try to get out of a traffic stop has pleaded guilty in the case.

Robert Ritter of Carthage in southwestern Missouri entered the plea Monday to a charge of making a false bomb threat. The Joplin Globe reports that Ritter was given a four-year suspended sentence as part of his plea deal and placed on five years of supervised probation.

The 44-year-old Ritter was a passenger in a car that a Jasper County deputy pulled over in November for having expired plates that did not match the vehicle. Authorities sa...



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