POCATELLO — A 58-year-old man has been charged after calling Idaho’s Capitol building frustrated and claiming a bomb had been planted.

Donald Alan Hawkins was charged with a felony count of false reports of explosives. If he is found guilty, he faces up to five years in prison.

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According to court documents, on Oct. 8, an officer with the Pocatello Police Department responded to a report of harassment near the 200 block of Main Street.

The reporter told officers that Hawkins had called the building’s office multiple times and yelled profanities and harassed their employees, and threatened to blow them up.

Officers called a family member who was with Hawkins, and during the call, Hawkins could be heard yellin

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