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Police: Man upset at missing birth made bomb threat

SALT LAKE CITY

A Utah man accused of calling in a hospital bomb threat because he was upset he couldn’t attend his child’s birth is being charged in federal court.

Michael Morlang was indicted Wednesday and faces up to 10 years if convicted, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Utah said in a news release.

The threat led to an evacuation and lockdown Sept. 17 at a hospital in the small central Utah city of Richfield.

His wife and her father told investigators the day of the incident that Morlang made the bomb threat because he was angry about not being there for the birth, court documents from state charges filed earlier this year show.

The woman’s father also told investigators that Morlang was upset because he heard his wife was going to have a procedure to prevent having more pregnancies.

Car thieves drop boy off at school in Virginia, police say

NORFOLK, Va.

Police say two car thieves made an unexpected stop after stealing a vehicle Wednesday morning: They dropped an 8-year-old boy off at school after they discovered him in the backseat.

Norfolk police spokesman Daniel Hudson says the boy was sitting in his mother’s car in her employer’s parking lot when the men got inside. The keys were in the ignition.

Hudson says the boy told police that the men asked him which school he attended and then took him there.

The mother called police after she returned to the parking lot and found the car and her son were missing.

Police say they found the boy unharmed at school, and the car was abandoned about 3 miles away.

No arrests have been made.

Photographer’s tripod mistaken for gun prompts 911 call

LANCASTER, Pa.

Police were called to a central Pennsylvania office building after someone mistakenly thought a photographer’s tripod was a gun.

LNP reports the incident happened about 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Griest Building in Lancaster.

The caller thought a machine gun was carried into the building, so police conducted a floor-by-floor search only to find the photographer and her tripod.

Employees at Industrial Resolution, a software firm in the building, took a photo of the responding officers and the photographer, who mugged for the camera. The company posted the image on its Facebook page.

Lancaster police Lt. Todd Umstead says the caller did the right thing and that police would “much rather respond to a call like this” and find nothing than not get a call when someone really has a gun.

Associated Press