A Colorado man has been arrested and charged in connection with a bomb threat he allegedly made last week at the Adams County Courthouse. Court records show that the day the threat was made, the man had a hearing scheduled at that courthouse to be sentenced in a previous case.
Steven Sandoval, 47, was arrested on Sunday and formally charged on Wednesday with false report of explosives, weapons, or harmful substances, a felony, and false reporting of an emergency, a misdemeanor, the Adams County District Attorney’s Office said on Wednesday.
The alleged threat prompted the evacuation of the Adams County Courthouse at 1100 Judicial Center Drive in Brighton and a nearby grocery store, where investigators believe the call was made from. Both buildings were cleared in a matter of hours, and people were later allowed to return.
Court records show Sandoval had a sentencing hearing on the day the threats were made for a previous case where he pleaded guilty to identity theft. The status of that hearing date in court records reads “party failed to appear,” but says he had an appearance on an arrest warrant on Monday and is set to be sentenced again on March 9…