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FedEx worker charged after Guard base bomb joke

SALT LAKE CITY — Prosecutors in Utah have charged a FedEx driver with a threat of terrorism count over allegations he joked that a package he was delivering to a Utah Army National Guard base was likely a bomb.

Charges filed Wednesday show the deliveryman was dropping off a package Sept. 20 addressed to an Army Corps of Engineers employee at Camp Williams.

Prosecutors say that when a woman asked him what it was, he replied that it was probably a bomb. Military police then evacuated 215 people from the building and the surrounding area.

The Deseret News identified the driver as Kevin Coleman, 27. He is charged with a third-degree felony count of threat of terrorism.

Police said the man later told them his comment was a mistake.