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    You are at:Home»Local News»August trial set for Ohio man charged in 2019 hoax hostage threat at Lee Elementary

    August trial set for Ohio man charged in 2019 hoax hostage threat at Lee Elementary

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    By Brandon Peoples on May 13, 2021 Local News, Manhattan
    RCPD investigators were out at Manhattan’s Lee Elementary School well before dawn Nov. 13 after a hoax hostage situation was called in to the department. It was later linked to an Ohio teenager. (Photo by Derek Simmons/KMAN)
    Allen Kenna (mugshot)

    An August trial is coming for a 19-year-old Ohio man accused of calling in a fake hostage threat at Lee Elementary in 2019.

    Allen Kenna faces federal charges of interstate communication of threats and attempted use of an explosive device. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio has accused Kenna of calling the Riley County Police Department and Topeka television news stations to tell them he was holding a hostage at gunpoint inside the school building in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2019. A search of the school found no threat.

    Charging documents also allege Kenna was attempting to build an explosive device to attack a nearby high school in Ohio.

    A federal judge found Kenna to be competent for trial, which is set for Aug. 30 in Ohio.

    RCPD investigators were out at Manhattan’s Lee Elementary School well before dawn Nov. 13 after a hoax hostage situation was called in to the department. It was later linked to an Ohio teenager. (Photo by Derek Simmons/KMAN)
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