Student sentenced in bomb threats

PARK HILLS, Mo. -- A teen-ager accused of making bogus bomb threats to Central High School last November has been ordered to spend up to four years in prison. But under Friday's sentence, Circuit Judge Sandy Martinez after four months will reconsider Brock Conrad's punishment and decide whether the 18-year-old man should receive probation.

Conrad pleaded guilty in April to one count of making a false bomb threat, with a plea deal with prosecutors calling for no more than four years in prison on the felony county. Prosecutors dropped three identical counts, which each carried up to five years behind bars.

Conrad admitted to police he called in threats to Central High School four times between Nov. 8 and Nov. 16. Conrad said he had gotten into a fight before the first bomb threat and wanted to scare two female students; the future call-ins were part of a running prank.