LOS ANGELES—An Oklahoma man who grew up in Los Angeles was arrested on June 1 on federal charges alleging that he telephoned bomb threats to five Los Angeles schools, including two elementary schools, and also threatened to shoot the children as they exited one of the elementary schools.
Marcus James Buchanan, 44, of Blackwell, Oklahoma, is expected to make his initial appearance on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Wichita, Kansas.
Buchanan is charged with one count of making a telephonic threat to damage or destroy buildings by fire or explosives, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
According to court papers, during a period of fewer than two hours on the morning of Feb. 28, Buchanan allegedly called in bomb threats to two elementary schools, two middle schools, and a high school in Los Angeles. In a call to one of the elementary schools, Buchanan allegedly threatened to shoot the children as they exited the building, prosecutors said….