Man who made bomb threats to Rapides schools pleads

A man who was indicted for making four false bomb threats in one day to Rapides Parish schools back in 2014 pleaded guilty earlier this month.

Rueben David Byon, now 20, pleaded guilty on Jan. 9 to four counts of communicating false information of planned bombs. He was sentenced to two years at hard labor, but was given credit for time served both in Louisiana and Texas.

On Jan. 11, he was transferred to the Rapides Parish Detention Center #3, which is off Coliseum Boulevard in Alexandria.

The fake threats caused havoc at Brame Middle, Alexandria Senior High, Pineville High and Bolton High schools on Sept. 9, 2014. Byon, then 17, once attended Bolton, but had moved to Fredericksburg, Texas.

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He also allegedly made threats to a high school there, and he had been charged by the Fredericksburg Police Department with two counts of terroristic threats. In April 2015, he pleaded guilty to those charges. He was sentenced to three years on both counts, to be served concurrently.