A Norwin student accused of issuing a threat that a bomb would explode at the high school on Feb. 24, waived his rights to a preliminary hearing Wednesday on the charges.
Nathan R. Kugler, 18, of North Huntingdon, was to undergo a hearing before North Huntingdon District Judge Wayne Gongaware on felony counts of terroristic threats and issuing a bomb threat at Norwin High School.
North Huntingdon Det. Tom Harris alleged in the criminal complaint filed against Kugler that the suspect used a computer application to conceal his identity when he phoned early the morning of Feb. 24 to the state Attorney General’s youth violence prevention program to say that a bomb would explode at the high school that afternoon. Kugler was arrested that day after police received a tip about people talking at a store about the bomb threat.
The school went into a modified lockdown for several hours that day.
Kugler is scheduled to be arraigned in before Westmoreland Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFazio in Greensburg on July 6. Kugler remains free on $50,000 unsecured bond.
