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Suspect In Western Illinois University Bomb Threats Taken Into Custody

By Scott Sarvay
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November 16, 2010 Updated Nov 16, 2010 at 6:21 PM EDT

MACOMB, Illinois (Indiana's NewsCenter) - A Chicago man has been arrested for making a bomb threat on the campus of Western Illinois University.

In the last three weeks campus officials have responded to at least six bomb threats.

18-year-old Cameron McKoy has been taken into federal custody and is connected to at least one of the threats.



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