GREENSBURG, Pa. — Most people lose an hour's sleep when clocks spring forward for daylight-saving time. One western Pennsylvania teen lost 12 days of freedom.
Cody Webb, 15, says he was wrongly charged with phoning in a bomb threat to his high school last month because the school district didn't reset a clock on a phone system, something police overlooked during their investigation.
Webb spent 12 days in the Westmoreland County Juvenile Detention Center before a judge dismissed the charges.
Webb, an honors student active in student council, tennis and the Japanese Club at Hempfield Area High School, had never even been given detention, his mother, Linda, told the Tribune-Review of Greensburg for a story Wednesday.
"It was a nightmare," she said.
Webb called a school district hot line to listen to a recorded message about school delays at 3:12 a.m. EDT on March 11, according to his cell phone records.
The next day, school officials found the hot line had recorded a bomb threat from a blocked phone number at 3:17 a.m.
School officials concluded Webb had made the threat because they also found a record of his phone call, his attorney Tim Andrews said.
