A Louisville man was sentenced on Thursday to two years and nine months in federal prison for a downtown Louisville bomb threat hoax.
After that two-year nine-month sentence, 50-year-old Jimmy Smith, Jr. will have three years of supervised release for providing false information and a bomb threat hoax, according to court records.
On August 12, 2022, Smith rode a bicycle in downtown Louisville while carrying a backpack, according to a release. He then put a package labeled “bomb” in a high-traffic, business area near the riverfront.
LMPD’s bomb squad dismantled the device, which contained pipes that had wires coming from the tubes, and found that it was non-operational, officials said. However, a large area of downtown Louisville had to be shut down for several hours while crews worked.
The case was investigated by the FBI and Louisville Metro Police Department.
Source: WAVE
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