Man sentenced to prison for threatening to bomb Dodson school | Great falls

GREAT FALLS, Mt. – On May 29, 2024, a man was sentenced to one year and one month in prison followed by three years of supervised release after previously admitting to making threats to bomb the Dodson school.

According to the office of US Attorney Jesse Laszlovich, Jacob Edwin Wilson (40), a transient, was charged with false information and hoaxes, to which he pleaded guilty in January 2024.

Court documents allege that on August 29, 2023, Wilson called both the Blaine County 911 emergency line and the Dodson School, located near the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, to say he was ” about to blow up Dodson’s school.”

Police quickly responded and the superintendent and principal evacuated all students and staff from the school to a nearby parking lot.

First responders from the Phillips County Sheriff's Office, the Malta Fire Department and the U.S. Border Patrol all helped set up security around the school and search the school for explosive devices.

No such explosives were found. Wilson then called 911 and asked for someone to drive him off the reservation from a person's address he had provided and said he needed a ride. anyone except the Fort Belknap Police Department.

Officers then located Wilson at the private address and arrested him.