Man Who Threatened To Bomb Yale New Haven Hospital Charged: Feds

NEW HAVEN, CT — A year ago, the Justice Department says, Alexander Bradley, 42, now of Rhode Island, threatened to bomb Yale New Haven Hospital. Friday, he was arrested on a federal criminal complaint, according to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut and the FBI.

As is alleged in court documents and statements made in court and in a news release from Justice, on May 9, 2021, Bradley called the Yale University Health Clinic, spoke to a nurse and asked if had reached the Yale New Haven Hospital. When told he hadn't Bradley, who refused to give his name, complained he'd been denied care and said he was going to bomb Yale New Haven Hospital. Thirty minutes later, federal prosecutors said, he then anonymously called Yale New Haven Hospital and claimed he'd put a pressure cooker containing a bomb outside of the building.

The U.S. Attorney noted that the bomb threat "disrupted hospital operations and required a significant response from the New Haven Police Department, Yale Police Department and Yale New Haven Protective Service."

Investigators from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force found a phone number used to make the threats was linked to Bradley, prosecutors said. And, the investigation found that less than three weeks after he made the bomb threat to Yale, he called a CVS in Cranston, RI, and said that he was going to “shoot up” and “blow up” a hospital, prosecutors said

Bradley appeared yesterday before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Hartford last week and was released on an $25,000 bond into the custody of a third-party custodian, per the Justice Department. As conditions of his release, Bradley is subject to location monitoring and must attend drug and mental health treatment, it's noted in a news release.

The complaint charges Bradley with conveying false information about explosives, and false information and hoaxes. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in federal prison.