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Warren man charged with making school threat expected to go home on GPS-monitored house arrest
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
A city man charged with inducing panic after he was accused of posting a Facebook message threatening a Sandy Hook-style school massacre was expected to leave the Trumbull County Jail on Thursday afternoon on bond.
Judge Thomas Gysegem of Warren Municipal Court set bond for Alan M. Jordan, 33, of Laird Avenue Southeast at $5,000 personal recognizance, meaning Jordan didn’t have to pay anything.
The judge ordered that Jordan be fitted with an electronically monitored and GPS-equipped ankle bracelet before he left the jail and that he not go within a quarter mile of any of the Warren schools.
Authorities said the post indicated that Jordan was upset about how other children were treating his child, and he wanted other parents to know about it.
The post said, “I swear to God, I’ll make Sandy Hook look like a day at Disney ... so y’all better control ya [expletive] kids ...”
A condition of Jordan’s bond is that he not leave home except to attend doctor and attorney appointments and church services.
The judge said Jordan had shown “significant progress” since an initial evaluation shortly after he was arrested Feb. 3.
Jordan was ordered to “stay off of the internet, stay off of Facebook,” the judge said during an arraignment hearing Thursday, asking Jordan if he understood. “Yes, Sir,” Jordan responded. Jordan was arraigned by video from the jail.
The arraignment was delayed by the judge’s order that Jordan receive a mental-health evaluation before his first hearing, where bond is typically set.
The hearing also was delayed by a second mental-health evaluation done at a state psychiatric hospital getting lost and the judge having to issue an order directing officials to release it to him.
The judge said he and his staff made numerous attempts by telephone earlier this week to ask Coleman Professional Services of Warren and the hospital for the second report but couldn’t get either facility “to answer the phone.”
Judge Gysegem said late Thursday he still isn’t sure how to avoid the problem in the future except to ask his staff to “hound” Coleman and the state hospital for such reports.