A Charleston man is in jail after police say someone passed a bus driver a note threatening to "blow the face of the planet off."
Tony Meredith, 41, was charged with possession or use of a hoax bomb.
Police were notified about the bomb after a passenger passed a note to a Kanawha Regional Transit bus driver while at the Transit Mall stop, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court. The note allegedly that someone who lived at a home on Stockton Street had a pipe bomb with ammonium nitrate.
The bus driver notified police, and the passenger told police he had seen a bomb in Meredith's apartment.
When the police arrived at Meredith's apartment he allegedly threatened them, saying he could "blow the face off the earth." After Meredith was detained by police, officers cleared the building, the complaint said.
A bomb squad determined there were no explosive materials in the pipe bomb.
Meredith is being held at the South Central Regional Jail on a $10,000 cash only bond.