A 27-year-old man has been indicted for allegedly phoning a bomb threat in to Buckley Air Force Base in January.
David Charles Barton of Boulder was arrested this morning by FBI agents, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Denver.
According to the indictment, at 11:13 a.m. on Jan. 21, Barton phoned the 460th Security Forces Control Center at Buckley.
He allegedly stated that he had a “hand-held, single-wire Kansas trigger, and that all the bombs would detonate when he was done torturing.”
Barton did not say who he was torturing, according to Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
During the call, according to the indictment, the caller identified himself as “David” and asked that the Secret Service be contacted.
“Telephone acts like this divert law-enforcement resources away from those who truly need them,” said Acting U.S. Attorney David Gaouette.
If convicted, Barton faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Boulder police and sheriff’s office, and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com
