Man arrested for alleged bomb threat at Piedmont plant

GREENVILLE, Mo. -- A Piedmont man was arrested Friday on charges of calling in a bomb threat at Windsor Foods.

Marty Allen Shriver, 27, of the 600 block of Dryden was arrested about 4:30 p.m., according to Piedmont Police Chief Richard Sanders.

He was booked at the Wayne County Jail, where he is being held on a $3,500 cash or surety bond on a terrorist threat charge and $2,500 cash or surety bond on a bomb charge.

Shriver was charged Thursday with the Class C felony of making a terrorist threat and the Class D felony of false bomb report by Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney Robert Ramshur.

The charges stem from a telephone call, which was made at about 5:45 a.m. Nov. 5 to the Wayne County Sheriff's Department indicating there were bombs at Windsor Foods in Piedmont.

The call, Sanders said, was from a "male subject, who stated his name was Marty and that he had placed several pipe bombs around Windsor Foods and one inside the building."

After receiving the telephone call, the sheriff's department notified the Piedmont Police Department and Officer Josh Pratt was "close enough in the city" to arrive at the plant three minutes later, Sanders said.

Upon his arrival, Sanders said, Pratt contacted Frank King, manager of Windsor Foods, and they began to evacuate the approximately 100 employees from the building.

Additional officers, including Sgt. Paul Hicks and Sanders, arrived shortly thereafter.

"After the evacuation, a search was conducted of the outside perimeter and the inside of the building with negative results," Sanders said. "Then, after looking at the surveillance footage (it was determined) everyone that came in was supposed to be there."

Officers, Sanders said, determined the call originated from a pay telephone at a local convenience store in Piedmont.

"Then, putting some things together, we ended up detaining a male subject by the name of Marty Shriver," Sanders said. "Contact was made with him and he came to the Piedmont PD at about 9 o'clock that morning."

Further investigation revealed Shriver had "left his home at about 3 a.m. and returned (there) after 6 a.m.," Sanders said.

Shriver, who was told of his rights, gave a statement to officers.

In that statement, Shriver admitted he "made a bomb threat out of frustration and anger," Lt. Cory Thompson said in his probable cause affidavit.

Sanders said Shriver was angry because Windsor Foods would not rehire him.

Shriver is on probation after having pleaded guilty in May to the Class C felony of possession of a controlled substance in Wayne County Circuit Court.

At that time, the court sentenced him to three years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, with suspended imposition of the sentence, and placed him on five years of supervised probation.

Pertinent address:

2 Industrial Dr., Piedmont, MO