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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Year in Review — No. 9: Man Threatened to Blow Up Village Hall, Shorewood Apartments

Join us as we take a trip down memory lane and look at the top 10 Shorewood stories of 2012.

As the year winds down, we'll all surely look back at what we've done in 2012. Here at Shorewood Patch, we're doing the same thing with a list of the top 10 local stories of the year.  Join us as we take a trip down memory lane. The top stories were chosen based on page views in addition to the impact it had on the community. No. 9 — Police: Homeless Man Threatened to Blow Up Village Hall, Shorewood Apartments Residents were forced to evacuated their homes at a Shorewood apartment complex as police combed the buildings with bomb-sniffing dogs after a threat was called in on Aug. 27. Following the threat being made, a 50-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested at the scene. The man — Shorewood police indentified as Thomas Yela — called an …

Monday, December 3, 2012

Man Accused of Shorewood Bomb Threats Pleads Guilty

Thomas Yela, 50, pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of creating a bomb scare, after he called police and an intervention center in August, and threatened to blow up Shorewood's River Park apartments and the Locust Street bridge.

The 50-year-old Milwaukee man charged with threatening to blow up a Shorewood apartment building and a bridge in Milwaukee pleaded guilty on Monday, according to online court records. Thomas Yela was charged Aug. 31, after he called in bomb threats, prompting police to evacuate Village Hall, and some 600 residents from the River Park Apartments in Shorewood on Aug. 27.  According to the criminal complaint, Yela phoned an intervention hotline and told an employee he strapped bombs to two of the apartment buildings and it would be up to police to figure out which ones. Milwaukee County Sheriff’s bomb squad dogs combed the buildings and no bombs were found.  He also said he was going to blow up the Locust Street bridge just because he felt …

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