Crime & Safety

South Hills Village Bomb Threat Suspect Blames 'Hoity Toity Kids'

The suspect is a 70-year-old man from Castle Shannon.

A Castle Shannon man accused of making a bomb threat at the Barnes & Noble at South Hills Village Sunday night blames his arrest on "hoity, toity kids," according to the AP.

Police say Frank Zahler, 70, asked some other customers to watch his briefcase and joked it contained some explosives relating to the Boston Marathon. The customers alerted the manager, who then called police.

The Bethel Park the movie theater and surrounding restaurants.

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"In my day, we would have laughed it off, you know? There's no hope," Zahler told reporters, according to the AP.

The image of Zahler comes from WPXI

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