THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, April 23, 1995 TAG: 9504230028
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A5 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY STEVE STONE, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE LENGTH: Short : 37 lines
A man the FBI says made repeated telephoned threats against the agency and against the Federal Building in downtown Norfolk was arrested Saturday.
Jeffrey Spruill, 40, who lives in a trailer park in the 800 block of George Washington Highway, was being held in the Tidewater Regional Jail in Suffolk without bond Saturday night.
``He made multiple calls to our office and to other federal offices,'' said FBI spokesman Thomas Love.
``He called the FBI 15 or so times.''
Love said he had not heard tape recordings of the calls and declined to label them specifically as bomb threats. But he said the calls were threatening and ``were relating to the type of activity that has occurred in Oklahoma City'' where a truck bomb ripped open a nine-story federal building Wednesday.
Spruill is charged under a federal felony statute, Love said, that makes illegal ``use of the telephone to make a willful threat concerning an attempt or an alleged attempt to kill, injure or intimidate or to unlawfully damage or destroy any building by the use of fire or explosive.''
Love said the phone calls began shortly after midnight Saturday and persisted through the day. ``That situation required some aggressive action for obvious reasons,'' Love said.
Spruill was arrested at his home Saturday without incident. He will face a federal magistrate on Monday.
KEYWORDS: BOMB THREATS BOMB SCARES ARREST by CNB