Man angry about missing birth sentenced for bomb threat

Man angry about missing birth sentenced for bomb threat

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who pleaded guilty to calling in a hospital bomb threat because he was upset he couldn't attend his child's birth will serve more than four years in federal prison.

The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reports that 27-year-old Michael Morlang of Payson was sentenced to 51 months on Monday.

His lawyer Jay Winward says the child had already been born when Morlang phoned in the September 2015 threat that led to an evacuation and lockdown at a hospital in the central Utah city of Richfield.

Court documents show his wife and her father told investigators that Morlang made the bomb threat because he was angry he wasn't there for the birth.

Authorities say drugs may also have played a part.

He pleaded guilty to a federal bomb-threat charge in February.

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