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Driver Makes Bomb Threat To Elude Arrest Warrant On Drug Charges

By Lependorf & Silverstein

This story is a great example of how you can dig a hole 10 times deeper than the one you?re already in. Instead of hiring a competent New Jersey defense attorney to get him out of trouble and get the help he needs, Kyle Lewthwaite decided to do something he thought was very smart. He phoned in a bogus bomb threat to a neighborhood school to get out of a warrant for his arrest for failing to appear in court on a drug possession charge. According to an article in the Daily Record , the 23-year-old Lewthwaite was charged with possession of heroin, possession with intent to distribute and other charges. This week, police stopped him for a seatbelt violation. Lewthwaite, who knew he was in trouble, picked up his cell phone when the officer was not looking, called 911 and called in the phony threat to distract officers...continue to full post

Full post as published by New Jersey Criminal Defense Blog on November 26, 2007 (boomark / email).