Cobb Bomb Threat Hearing Postponed

A bond hearing for the Starlight Cafe owner accused of making bomb threats to the Cobb and Cherokee courthouses has been postponed.

That's because Jody John Wilson's attorney did not show up for a scheduled hearing Tuesday in Cobb County Magistrate Court, according to the Marietta Daily Journal.

Wilson, a Woodstock resident, was arrested May 7, hours after a bomb threat forced the evacuation of courthouses in Cobb and Cherokee counties. He faces multiple charges in both counties in connection with that threat and a similar one in January.

Both threats were made on days that foreclosed properties went up for auction on the courthouse steps.

Lt. Jay Baker with the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office said last month that Wilson's home in the 7000 block of Surrey Drive "was scheduled to be sold on the courthouse steps," and detectives "believe that was the motive of the bomb threats."

In the latest case, investigators with the Cobb County Sheriff's Office said a call from a pay phone at the Citgo gas station on Fairgound and Roswell streets came in at Cobb County 911 about 10:55 a.m. May 7.

The caller stated "there was a bomb placed outside the Cherokee and the Cobb County courthouses," Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren said last month.

No devices were found in Cobb or Cherokee, but "Cobb County Sheriff's Office investigators were able to determine the phone call was made form a pay phone by Jody John Wilson," Warren said.

It is not clear when Wilson will appear in court. Officials with the Cobb County District Attorney's Office are not sure who is representing Wilson, according to the MDJ.

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