Yutaka employee arrested in recent bomb threats

By Randa Wagner -

A sus­pect has been arrested in con­nec­tion with mul­ti­ple bombs threats made in the past month against Card­ing­ton Yutaka Tech­nolo­gies in Cardington.

Act­ing Card­ing­ton Police Chief Robert Hus­ton said Yutaka employee Wes­ley Basilone is in cus­to­day at the Mor­row County Cor­rec­tional Facility.

“We’ve been inves­ti­gat­ing this case pretty hard in the last cou­ple of weeks,” said Hus­ton, “and we went to the plant today and spoke with our sus­pect, and were able to retrieve a full confession.”

An ini­tial charge of induc­ing panic has been filed by the prosecutor’s office. Hus­ton is seek­ing eight felony counts cit­ing van­dal­ism and induc­ing panic, both fourth degree felonies.

“It was a lot of hard work with extra hours put in,” Hus­ton said of the inves­ti­ga­tion, not­ing Yutaka offi­cials are happy with the results.

Because a con­fes­sion was obtained, the foren­sic evi­dence and pho­tographs col­lected with the aid of the Mor­row County Sheriff’s office was not used, though it will be help­ful in strength­en­ing the case, Hus­ton noted. A felony pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing was sched­uled for today at 1:00 p.m.

Hus­ton cred­its the sher­iff, his deputies and the Franklin County Bomb Squad toward the appre­hen­sion of the sus­pect, but also cites the col­lec­tion of evi­dence, work­ing hand in hand with Yutaka super­vi­sors and the work of Card­ing­ton offi­cers, par­tic­u­larly Offi­cer Mark Cal­li­coat, as key factors.

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