3 RED PLUM COUPON PACKS COMING SUNDAY ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCH.COM 50 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY FRIDAY | JANUARY 29, 2016 Guilty plea in hospital bomb threat personnel had information to locate the tele- of Corrections. According to 25-year-old faces up to 10 years in prison approximately 15 phone that placed the call. It MDOC, restitution centers are BY WILLIAM BROWNING Authorities say Sparks made minutes to evac- was located at the Leflore Coun- where “minimal risk offend-
[email protected] the threat via a cellular tele- uate, according ty Restitution Center in Green- ers” are required to work and to an affidavit wood and guards there recog- pay full or partial payments to phone while he was an inmate signed by a FBI nized the voice on the recorded crime victims. A Columbus man has plead- at a Delta jail. investigator. threat as belonging to Sparks, Residents at restitution cen- ed guilty to making a false He faces up to a decade be- bomb threat to Baptist Memori- The hospital according to the affidavit. ters are not allowed to have cell hind bars. was evacuated. A Sparks Sparks admitted to law en- phones. Authorities ultimately al Hospital-Golden Triangle in In November, the Colum- team of explosive forcement that the call was a determined that Sparks smug- November. bus hospital received a midday detecting dogs and their han- “foolish prank,” authorities say. gled the cell phone in. Michael Anthony Sparks, 25, phone call from a man who dlers from Columbus Air Force Sparks had been at the He remains in custody while entered his plea to the felony in asked the operator if she want- Base were called in.