UPDATE: San Benito HS bomb threat caller sentenced to prison

UPDATE 5/26/2015: A Michigan man, who pleaded guilty to making bomb threats toward San Benito High School in 2012, was sentenced to prison.

The Hollister Police Department reports Jason Keith Smith, 30, of Lincoln Park, Michigan, was sentenced on May 22 to 14 months in prison.

PREVIOUS STORY: A Michigan man pleaded guilty to charges he made bomb threats toward San Benito High School in 2012 in federal court Wednesday.

On Jan. 23, 2013, Hollister police said FBI agents arrested Jason Keith Smith, 30, of Lincoln Park, Michigan in connection to bomb threats made toward San Benito High School in December of 2012.

Hollister detectives and high school staff worked closely with agents to identify evidence which led them to believe the suspect was possibly out of state. Investigators said Smith was communicating with Hollister youth through social media.

Agents said Smith allegedly used his cell phone to make the threats, claiming he’d hidden explosives inside the high school and threatened to detonate the device.

Smith is charged with use of interstate communications to make threats and plead guilty in court to the charge in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California in San Francisco.

Hollister Police Chief Dave Westrick said Smith’s sentencing is June 3 in San Jose. He said he and San Benito High School officials will offer testimony at sentencing.