FALSE ALARMS Pa. man charged for calls

Brandon Passel was already facing the same charges in Sharon.
GREENVILLE, PA. -- Police have charged a Sharon man with making false bomb threat and fire calls affecting the Keystone Schools on Sept. 23.
Brandon J. Passel, 18, of Sherman Avenue, turned himself in Monday after learning a warrant had been issued for his arrest on charges of making terroristic threats and making false alarms to public service agencies.
He was arraigned before District Justice William Fagley and freed on a $5,000 unsecured bond.
Passel is already facing the same two charges in Sharon.
Phone calls
Police there arrested him Sept. 29 for allegedly making calls to the Mercer County 911 Center regarding bogus fires, bomb threats and assaults in Sharon, some of them supposed to be at the police station itself.
The calls in Sharon were made from a cell phone and a police officer listening to tapes of those calls recognized Passel's voice, police said.
He was arraigned on the Sharon charges on the day of his arrest and released on his own recognizance.
Greenville police said Passel is accused of making calls to the 911 Center reporting a bomb was going to explode at the Keystone Charter School on South Goodhope Road and later that the Keystone Shelter Care building on Pa. Route 18 was on fire.
Both calls were false.
Police said the charter school was evacuated and a dog team from Conneaut Lake was called in to search the building for explosives.
Passel faces restitution to Keystone Schools, the Conneaut Lake Police Department and other expenses incurred during the investigation, police said.