Details Released On Accused Freehold Movie Theater Bomb Threat-Maker

By KAREN WALL and TOM DAVIS

A man who has been charged with making both threats to a N.J. theater complex was actually an employee of the theater, authorities said.

Authorities confirmed to Patch that Jesse Carroll, 22, was an employee of the theater complex.

The Middletown man is charged with two counts of second-degree public false alarm, said Charles Webster, spokesman for the prosecutor’s office. Carroll is being held at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution, Freehold Township, in lieu of $200,000 bail with no 10 percent option.

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The bail was set by Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Honora O’Brien Kilgallen, who also ordered he not return to the scene of the crimes and may have no contact with any movie theaters, according to Webster and Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni.

“Making bomb threats in a movie theater is nothing short of domestic terrorism,” Gramiccioni said. “Thankfully for everyone involved this was a hoax.”

The complex at Freehold Raceway Mall was evacuated twice this week after a series of threatening notes were discovered in the men’s room at the complex. On Monday evening, Dec. 14, and again on Friday afternoon, Dec. 18, notes were found in the men’s room of the movie complex containing threats to either the theater management or specific threats of bombs inside the theater, he said.

One note on Friday afternoon read: “I’m coming for blood; 4pm bomb, 6pm empty mag in guests,” Webster said.

After each discovery the movie complex was safely evacuated while law enforcement was called to the scene. A thorough check of the movie complex yielded no threats to the safety of moviegoers, employees or management and business was returned to normal.