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Janitor avoids jail for bomb threat
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Marlene Madewell was issued the sentence by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley.
The former Warren County High School custodian who caused pandemonium when she faked a bomb threat at the school will not face any jail time but will instead by confined to house arrest.The woman, Marlene Madewell, 54, was issued the sentence by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley. She entered a guilty plea in May to the felony count of filing a false report and appeared before the court for a sentencing hearing last week. Madewell requested a judicial diversion, meaning her criminal record would be erased at the end of her sentence, but the court refused that request, instead saying she would spend 90 days of her three-year sentence on house arrest, with the balance spent on probation.