Court documents detail investigation into man accused of bomb threat at Idaho Capitol
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POCATELLO — A 58-year-old man has been charged after calling Idaho’s Capitol building frustrated and claiming a bomb had been planted.
Donald Alan Hawkins was charged with a felony count of false reports of explosives. If he is found guilty, he faces up to five years in prison.
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According to court documents, on Oct. 8, an officer with the Pocatello Police Department responded to a report of harassment near the 200 block of Main Street.
The reporter told officers that Hawkins had called the building’s office multiple times and yelled profanities and harassed their employees, and threatened to blow them up.
Officers called a family member who was with Hawkins, and during the call, Hawkins could be heard yelling in the background. The man was verbally trespassed from the building.
A Trooper with the Idaho State Police reviewed the incident, and the phone number for Hawkins was listed in a prior incident involving an alleged bomb threat at a state government building.
The document states that 20 minutes after the initial report at 10:14 a.m., the Len B. Jordan Building had received a call from the number associated with Hawkins.
The initial call was not recorded, but an employee reported that a man’s voice had stated a bomb had been planted in the building, and he knew who did it, but wasn’t going to say.
Due to the threat, the Capitol building was evacuated.
Two more calls were made from the same phone number, in which a male’s voice was heard. In the first voicemail, a man’s voice was heard saying he was “f***ing pissed man.”
The voice goes on to say that a name that was redacted was autistic and that they had killed him anyway and were cleared of any guilt.
The man makes allegations that he was raped when he was a child and that, “you’re gonna f***ing pay, kaboom.”
In the second voicemail, the same voice was heard saying, “Now go eat your steak dinner over that one and don’t choke.”
“You just sit there on your f****** a**** and eat donuts and drink coffee all day and make f***ing rules with your fascist f***ing state government over our f***ing capital. F*** you. Kaboom,” the document states.
An hour later, a welfare check was requested for a man with PPD who was running through traffic near East Center Street.
An officer arrived in the parking lot of a nearby business and found the man, later identified as Hawkins.
During the interaction, the trooper with ISP heard Hawkins tell the officer, “I’m f***ing sick of the b*******.”
“F***ing Trump and his f***ing state… kaboom,” the document states.
According to court documents, when the trooper called the phone number from the voicemails, and heard Hawkins’s voice when prompted to leave a message.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Hawkins to appear before Magistrate Judge David Hooste at 9 a.m. on Oct. 29.
Though Hawkins has been charged with these crimes, it does not necessarily mean he committed them. Everyone is presumed innocent until they are proven guilty.