Carbon County District Attorney Michael S. Greek announces that criminal charges have been filed against Jason Bracero of Jim Thorpe and Christopher Ohl of Lehighton, relating to a bomb threat called in to the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office on Oct. 21, which resulted in an evacuation of the Carbon County Courthouse and Annex buildings, as well neighboring businesses.

Ohl, who was scheduled to appear at the Carbon County Adult Probation Office for a urine test, expressed his concern of failing the test to his co-worker Bracero who offered to call in a bomb threat to the courthouse. Ohl obtained a prepaid phone which Bracero used to make the threat. Cellphone tower data was used to procure video surveillance footage showing Bracero walking away from Ohl’s car with the cellphone that corresponds to the time and location of the call.

The district attorney credits the quick response of the carbon county detectives as well as the Jim Thorpe Police Department for developing an anonymous tip resulting in these charges. Greek stated “Our detectives were preparing search warrants on a laptop in the county parking during the evacuation.”

Bracero and Ohl are charged with felony terroristic threats, threat to use weapons of mass destruction, false alarms to agencies of public safety and false reports. Both are currently being held at Carbon County Correctional Facility on unrelated charges.