Residents help officials in Bay City school district terroristic threats case
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threats timeline:
Dec. 28 - A threatening letter is mailed to Superintendent Keith Brown, Bay City school district. The letter outlined nine "rules." Failure to comply with rules would lead to random killing of students, the writer threatens.
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threats timeline:
Dec. 28 - A threatening letter is mailed to Superintendent Keith Brown, Bay City school district. The letter outlined nine "rules." Failure to comply with rules would lead to random killing of students, the writer threatens.
Jan. 5 - Bay city students, faculty and residents receive threatening text message that says if the first rule is broken, then two girls each from the high school and junior high will die. The sender instructs those receiving the text to forward the letter.
Jan. 6 - Call made to a business saying a bomb was in Linnie Roberts Elementary School. Law enforcement and dogs trained to sniff out explosives sweep the campus. Nothing is found.
Jan. 8 - Call made to Matagorda County Medical Center saying a bomb was in the Bay City Junior High. The building was cleared and no explosives found.
Jan. 11 - Second threatening letter addressed to Superintendent Keith Brown is left in a mailbox at Riverside Park in Bay City.
Jan. 25 - Several businesses and homes contacted by caller stating kids will be hurt if the rules are not followed. Number was blocked
Jan. 25 - Paul Nolen May is arrested at his home in Bay City, charged with 12 counts of terroristic threats.
BAY CITY - With the help of people who received threatening phone calls at home, police were able to make an arrest in the on-going threats against the Bay City school district.
Substitute teacher Paul Nolen May, 41, of Bay City, was arrested Wednesday night at his home. He was charged with 12 counts of terroristic threats, a third-degree felony.
He was arrested as the result of an investigation into anonymous death threats made to Bay City school district students, including the superintendent's youngest daughter.
On Wednesday anonymous calls were made to several homes and businesses threatening to harm students if the caller's rules were not followed by Feb. 1.
The residents worked with the Bay City Police Department and the Bay City school district police department, Steven Reis, district attorney for Matagorda County.
"We are cautiously optimistic that we are making progress in this case and feel a great sense of comfort and relief that we have someone in custody that has some knowledge of all this," said Keith Brown, superintendent of Bay City schools.
May, who has been a substitute teacher for the school district since 2008, remained in the Matagorda County Jail in lieu of bail totaling $240,000.
"Each allegation is a separate third-degree felony carrying a penalty range of up to 10 years in prison," said Reis.
The school district has been the target of several threats in the past month including a letter sent to the superintendent over the holiday break threatening the students and his daughter.
A few days later, a threatening text message was sent to students that read: "FWD: Hey! forward this tomorrow, (that letter)..:1 rule broken, two girls die @ the jr. high and 2 from high school, dnt go! They gona have skewl on" lockdown.
A bomb threat was then made against Linnie Roberts Elementary and the next day a bomb threat was made against Bay City Junior High.
A second letter addressed to Brown was left in a mailbox belonging to Riverside Park, a city park on Farm-to-Market Road 2668 in Bay City.
The search warrant and arrest warrants were issued Wednesday by District Judge Craig Estlinbaum.
Though the investigation is on going, investigators are looking into whether others may have been involved, Reis said.
Parent Sheryl Langston is relieved someone has been arrested.
"I am glad he was arrested because every morning when I drop off my daughter at school I am worried all day until I pick her up in the afternoon," she said.
Langston has a 12-year-old at Bay City Junior High.
"I hope we can put all this behind us and bring him to justice," she added.
The motive for the threats is still under investigation, Brown said.
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ive known him for along time and this isnt his mo
February 4, 2011 at 11:26 p.m.Radio, he had many other options & choices instead of going all terroristical on everyone. He threatened to kill peoples children, he threatend to blow up the schools, I don't believe that is an appropriate response to what he "claimed" happened. If people actually do believe that killing somebodys kid is an appropriate response to a fight between children, then God help us all.
January 28, 2011 at 6:36 p.m.Well although I dont condone what he did at all Zero Tolerance.
January 28, 2011 at 6:06 p.m.I hope prosecuters and the judge will look at the big picture the guy did it only because his daughter was beaten up for telling others to be quite in class and nothing apparently was done about it so I can understand how he would be upset hey thats your kid come people you know if your kid was beaten up for wanted quite in the classroom and the school and law didnt do anything to the people who beat up your kid you would be outraged as well Prosecuters and the Judge and cops know that if it was their kid they would be enraged but then again if it was one of their kids they would have surely done something about it then talk about being Fair WOW so now I guess its alot easier to make this man look like a violent manic criminal instead wheres the fair justice in this country.
Been meaning to ask this before and I will now.
January 28, 2011 at 9:36 a.m.Why does such a upstanding citizen deserve to have so much room taken on on the front page of any newspaper.
What were his rules???
January 28, 2011 at 9:21 a.m.He will probably use the mental defect defense & get off with a light sentence
January 28, 2011 at 7:45 a.m.yes this man did an inside job.reminds me of the movie about that movie about the babysitter that was getting threating phonecalls,they were coming from inside the house upstairs.that is realy scary,wow.
January 28, 2011 at 5:56 a.m.What if they got the wrong person? I wonder what the motive is... This is certainly peculiar...
January 28, 2011 at 2:23 a.m.before being locked up, he should be horse whipped in front of the courthouse
January 27, 2011 at 11:47 p.m.It is scary that he is a substitue teacher for more reasons than the obvious.....didn't anyone notice his spelling?
January 27, 2011 at 7:23 p.m.now may might be going to prison he has to becarefull the other inmates might be making some other kind of threats not bomb threats more like unlawfull entry threats lol see how he likes it lol
January 27, 2011 at 2:06 p.m.Speakup1968 - I guess you have never seen forensic files/other investigation shows before. They give info out like that all of the time. Quit being so paranoid! Still voting against the red lights cameras....BTW
January 27, 2011 at 1:07 p.m.hhmmm a substitute teacher??? It's scary to know that this man could have actually carried out his threats. He had direct access to these students and staff. good thing they caught this "ticking bomb" before it went off.
January 27, 2011 at 12:49 p.m.I'm surprised it took this long to catch him!
January 27, 2011 at 11:11 a.m.Reminds me of the bomb threats Victoria and Stroman High schools use to get during the Vietnam War. I always thought the dude making the calls got drafted when the calls stopped.
January 27, 2011 at 10:56 a.m.There is a God and He answers prayer.
January 27, 2011 at 10:12 a.m.Would be nice to know how they tracked it to him....
January 27, 2011 at 10:02 a.m.