Crime & Safety
Brookfield Central Student Could Get Prison Time for Bomb Scare
Police say handwriting sample, other half of torn paper both led them to the suspect.

BROOKFIELD -- Brookfield Central High School was subject to a false bomb threat in early May after a note was discovered in the girls' bathroom.
According to a Journal Sentinel report, 18-year-old Hannah L. Cobleigh of West Allis faces up to three years and six months for the bomb scare, a class I felony.
According to the complaint, Cobleigh later confessed to writing the note, saying "I wrote the note in my car at the beginning of school. I put the note in the bathroom."
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Police later located the bottom half of sheet of paper that the note had been written from, and also identified her handwriting after comparisons were made to a school assignment, the Journal Sentinel report said.
If convicted, she could face up to three and a half years in prison.
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