Chicago man arrested in WIU bomb threat
An 18-year-old from Chicago is accused of making recent bomb threats at the Western Illinois University-Macomb campus.
Cameron McKoy was arrested Tuesday in Chicago by the FBI and Western Illinois University Police Department. He is in federal custody in connection to a bomb threat made in October. He also faces local charges in the same October 25, 2010 threat. McKoy was arrested on those local charges on November 12.
McKoy will appear in court Tuesday in Peoria.
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