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Ohio man sentenced for bomb threats

Associated Press - November 4, 2009 4:44 PM ET

CINCINNATI (AP) - An Ohio man who threatened to blow up several Cincinnati-area landmarks has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison.

Frederick Purvis of Hamilton was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati. He pleaded guilty in June to one count each of making a bomb threat in Ohio and Kentucky.

The 43-year-old Purvis admitted creating an e-mail account under a fake name at a suburban Cincinnati hotel Nov. 13, 2008, and e-mailing the FBI that he had planted bombs at Paul Brown Stadium, four Ohio River bridges, an Indiana casino and the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. He said the bombs would explode within a few days. He was arrested a week later at an Erlanger, Ky., hotel. No bombs were found.

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