Cranston Man Threatens To Bomb CT Hospital: Feds

Cranston RI

02 May, 2022

12:31 PM

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CRANSTON, RI — A Cranston man was arrested Friday after federal officials said he threatened to bomb a Connecticut hospital last year. Alexander Bradley, 42, was charged in federal court with conveying false information about explosives, and false information and hoaxes. A year ago, the Justice Department says, Bradley threatened to bomb Yale New Haven Hospital. According to court documents, Bradley called the Yale University Health Clinic, spoke to a nurse and asked if had reached the Yale New Haven Hospital. When told he hadn't Bradley, who refused to give his name, complained he'd been denied care and said he was going to bomb Yale New Haven Hospital. Thirty minutes later, federal prosecutors said, he then anonymously called Yale New Haven Hospital and claimed he'd put a pressure cooker containing a bomb outside the building. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office said 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." Investigators from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force found a phone number used to make the threats was linked to Bradley, prosecutors said. And, the investigation found that less than three weeks after he made the bomb threat to Yale, he called a CVS in Cranston and said he was going to "shoot up" and "blow up" a hospital, prosecutors said Bradley appeared before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Hartford, Connecticut, last week and was released on a $25,000 bond into the custody of a third-party custodian, according to the Justice Department. As conditions of his release, Bradley is subject to location monitoring and must attend drug and mental health treatment. If convicted, Bradley faces up to 15 years in federal prison.