CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - A flight attendant has been indicted in connection with a false bomb scare that forced a plane from Charlottesville to Chicago to turn around.
Local news outlets report a grand jury in Charlottesville indicted 22-year-old Justin Cox-Sever Wednesday.
Recommended Videos
Cox-Sever faces counts including willfully communicating false information, thus endangering the safety of an aircraft in flight.
FBI Special Agent Daniel Genck said Cox-Sever admitted to writing a bomb threat on a bathroom wall of a SkyWest plane in July.
Cox-Sever is also accused of stuffing a bag with towels and reporting a suspicious package on a flight from Minneapolis to North Dakota in September.
Neil Fulton, head of the federal public defender's office for the Dakotas, had said prosecutors provided Cox-Sever's defense team with information about the Virginia incident.
Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.