jpatterson@mariettatimes.com KADENA, Japan (May 3, 2021) Capt. Scott Hardy, Commander, Fleet Activities Okinawa commanding officer, stands with Lt. Cmdr. Autumn Gibo, Regional Legal Services Office Western Pacific staff judge advocate, from Marietta, Oh., after her promotion ceremony at CFAO on Kadena Air Base Okinawa, Japan May 3, 2021. T(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class David R. Krigbaum) KADENA, Japan (May 3, 2021) Capt. Scott Hardy, Commander, Fleet Activities Okinawa commanding officer, puts the lieutenant commander rank on Lt. Cmdr. Autumn Gibo, Regional Legal Services Office Western Pacific staff judge advocate, from Marietta, Oh., during her promotion ceremony at CFAO on Kadena Air Base Okinawa, Japan May 3, 2021. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class David R. Krigbaum)
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Law enforcement officers stand at the entrance to Waterford Elementary School Friday morning.
UPDATE 12:12 p.m.: Students are being dismissed from Waterford High and Elementary schools following a second evacuation in two days and a subsequent lockdown.
A bomb threat was called in around 8:10 a.m., Washington County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Mark Warden said. The call was made from an IP-based number and investigators believe it was made by the same individual who called in a bomb threat Thursday afternoon.
Warden said bomb-sniffing dogs including from Ohio University and Muskingum County searched the schools.
A Washington man was sentenced to five years in prison for violating his sex offender registration requirements, second or subsequent offense, a class D felony.
Twenty-seven year-old Michael Allen Bryant pleaded guilty to the offense, and he must pay a $750 fine with a 15% surcharge and Category B restitution. Bryant was also ordered to serve an original two-year prison sentence that was suspended for a previous registry violation on February 19, 2020. Both sentences are to be served concurrently.
Bryant is also awaiting sentencing for a guilty plea to violating his probation on a conviction of domestic abuse assault, a serious misdemeanor. Bryant was previously convicted of violating his sex offender registry on January 29, 2020 and April 15, 2020. His most recent violation was for failing to contact the Washington County Sheriff’s Office last June. He was later court ordered to stay at a residential correctional facility, but in October he removed his ankle monitor and left the