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Feds: Pennsylvania man made bomb threats to airport, businesses

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A federal grand jury says a Pennsylvania man called in bomb threats to a restaurant, mall and airport on the same day.

Sixty-year-old Donald Lee Haas, of South Whitehall Township, was charged Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Allentown.The indictment says Haas called Lehigh Valley International Airport on May 17 to say a bomb had been carried onto an airplane. It says the same day, he called in bomb threats to a TGI Fridays restaurant and the Lehigh Valley Mall.He's charged with three counts of conveying false information by telephone and one count of conveying false information about carrying a bomb onto a plane, which is a separate federal offense.Online court records don't list a defense attorney. Prosecutors aren't saying why they think Haas made the threats.