ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Waynesville resident Cody Blake Strickler has pleaded guilty to making a bomb threat last spring that prompted the evacuation of the Haywood County Justice Center.
Last week, Superior Court Judge William Long sentenced the 33-year-old Strickler to serve a minimum of five years, with a maximum of seven years, in the North Carolina Division of Adult Corrections, District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch said in a statement.
On March 19, Strickler called 911 and reported: “The emergency is at the courthouse, the new one, there’s a bomb, C4, sausage links on detonators remote switches, you need to evacuate the courthouse now.”…