Former CentiMark employee charged with making bomb threats against company
A former employee of the Southpointe-based CentiMark has been arrested on a warrant accusing him of calling in bomb threats to the company on numerous occasions since March 2014.
Joseph D. Childers, 51, of Dayton, Ohio, was wanted by Cecil Township police on charges of making terroristic threats and harassment in the case when he was apprehended Thursday, court records indicate.
Police accused him of placing 26 harassing phone calls to the roofing company at 12 Grandview Circle after he was told to stop, the affidavit supporting the charges show.
Some of the calls were placed to the company’s offices in Franklin, Ohio.
Police were dispatched about 12:40 p.m. Feb. 12 to Southpointe, where CentiMark’s vice president of litigation, John Liekar Jr., stated Childers was an ex-employee from the 1990s.
The company reported Childers placed calls at 4:28 a.m. and 4:34 a.m. Feb. 10 to its answering service stating he was a former sergeant with the Dayton police department and “Centimark is going viral and they are going to be on the news.”
The calls were placed after police in Franklin, Ohio, told him Nov. 20 the “company wanted to be left alone,” the record states.
CentiMark claimed it received multiple telephone calls from Childers again on Feb. 26 and 27.
He was sent to Washington County jail on $10,000 bond after being arraigned before District Judge Mark Wilson.