Maryland man charged with courthouse bomb threat was due in court same day

The Baltimore man charged with making a bomb threat to a Washington County Circuit Court on Feb. 2 had a drug and traffic case slated for court that day — a case in which the drug-related charges were dismissed a day later.

Jamil Nicholas Gardner, 32, now faces up to 20 years in prison just on the felony charge of threatening to try to influence a Washington County Circuit Court judge who wasn’t even overseeing the drug/traffic case, according to court documents.

Gardner is accused in charging documents filed by a Maryland state fire marshal of threatening to blow up the downtown Hagerstown circuit courthouse and saying a specific judge was “going to die,” according to charging documents…

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