Former Cranston man pleads guilty in Yale New Haven Hospital bomb threat
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A former Cranston man pleaded guilty Monday to an offense related to his threatening to bomb the Yale New Haven Hospital, according to the U.S. attorney and FBI in Connecticut.
Alexander Bradley, 44, faces up to 15 years of prison at sentencing, which is scheduled for March 7 in U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn.
On May 9, 2021, Bradley anonymously called the Yale New Haven Hospital and said that he had placed a pressure cooker containing a bomb outside of the building, officials said, citing court documents and statements made in court.
The call was a hoax; Bradley had not put a bomb outside the hospital, the officials said.
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Nevertheless, the threat disrupted hospital operations and required a "significant response" from the New Haven Police Department, the Yale Police Department and Yale New Haven Protective Service, officials said.
About a half hour before calling the hospital, Bradley had called the Yale University Health Clinic, spoke to a nurse and asked if he had reached the Yale New Haven Hospital, officials said. When told that he hadn't, Bradley complained that he had been denied care at the Yale New Haven Hospital and said that he was going to bomb the hospital.
Bradley refused to give his name in the call to the clinic, but the FBI later linked the phone number used to make the threats to Bradley, officials said.
Investigators also learned that three weeks after he made the threat, Bradley contacted a CVS pharmacy in Cranston and said that he was going to "shoot up" and "blow up" a hospital, officials said.
Bradley was arrested on April 28, 2022, but on May 27, 2022, after he'd been released on bond and was living in a residential treatment facility, Bradley removed his location monitoring bracelet and took off, officials said. He was caught on July 14, 2023, and has been held since.
Bradley pleaded guilty to conveying false information about explosives, and false information and hoaxes.
The guilty plea was announced by Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Robert Fuller, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Former RI man pleads guilty in Yale New Haven Hospital bomb threat
