13-02-2025
Man allegedly told Winchester bank employee he was planning to build bomb, deliver it to police: ‘Don't snitch.'
WINCHESTER, Ky. (FOX 56) — A man was charged with terroristic threatening on Wednesday after he allegedly told a bank employee inside a Winchester Walmart that he was planning to build a bomb.
The Winchester Police Department (WPD) said in a report that James Beschorner, 62, was making a transaction at a bank inside of a Winchester Walmart when, according to a bank employee, he said he was making a bomb.
Court documents show that Beschorner allegedly told the employee 'he was going to bring the bomb to the police department when he completes it.'
Man allegedly told Winchester bank employee he was planning to build bomb, deliver it to police: 'Don't snitch.'
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The employee reportedly told authorities that Beschorner said he would search nearby trash cans for parts to make the bomb and that he would drive to Tennessee to get any missing parts that he still needed.
An arrest citation shows Bechorner told the bank employee that he had been to prison before for making bombs. Before leaving, he allegedly told them, 'Don't snitch.'
Beschorner was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening and lodged in the Clark County Detention Center.
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