Man accused of making school massacre threat indicted on misdemeanors

Staff report

WARREN

A Trumbull County grand jury indicted a man accused of threatening a school massacre Feb. 1 at his daughter’s school in Warren on misdemeanor telecommunications harassment and making false alarms.

The grand jury, however, did not return an indictment against Alan M. Jordan on a felony inducing-panic charge.

The misdemeanor charges against Jordan, 33, of Laird Avenue Southeast will return to Warren Municipal Court for adjudication.

Police said Jordan posted a Facebook message in which he said he was unhappy because his daughter, who attends one of the Warren K-8 schools, was “having some trouble at school with some little kids.”

The post went on to tell other parents they need to control their kids or he would “make Sandy Hook look like a day at Disney.”

Jordan has been free on bond since a February hearing. As conditions of his bond, he is on GPS-monitored house arrest, ordered not to go within a quarter mile of any city school building and remain on medications prescribed by a state psychiatric hospital.

Also indicted was Verl D. Gibson, 79, of Downs Road on six counts of rape that could each carry a life prison sentence. He also was indicted on another count of rape that doesn’t carry a potential life prison sentence.

Gibson is accused of repeatedly raping a girl less than 13 during visits in Niles. He’s been in the county jail in lieu of $750,000 bond since March 31.