BELLEVUE, Neb.
A bored security guard who wanted some excitement was behind a false bomb threat at a
bank in suburban Omaha that prompted police to close businesses and streets, U.S. authorities said Thursday.
Nicholaus Epperson, 20, confessed to falsely reporting Wednesday morning that a bomb was about to explode at the First
National Bank branch where he worked, police said.
Police rushed to the bank, evacuated the area, and searched for the bomb for more than an hour.
Police said Epperson initially told officers that he took a call from someone with a deep raspy voice who warned of an
imminent explosion. But investigators found no calls to the phone on which Epperson claimed to have received the threat.
Epperson later confessed, police said. ``He said he was bored and wanted some excitement,'' said Bellevue Police Capt. Herb
Evers.
Epperson faces felony charges of suspicion of making a terrorist threat.
