COLUMBUS – A Canal Winchester man has been convicted in federal court of making threats to law enforcement agencies, court officials, businesses and schools in and around Canal Winchester and Pickerington.
Yousif Mubarak , 27, was convicted of seven counts of making interstate threats after making threatening phone calls from Washington state, where he lived for a while, to a Franklin County Municipal Court Judge and placing numerous threatening calls to employees at the Brew Dog, Home Depot and Best Western businesses in Canal Winchester.
Mubarak also called in bomb threats to Canal Winchester Middle School and Pickerington North High School, where he said there were two suicide bombers inside the school, in September 2021, according to a release from the office of U.S. Attorney Kenneth Parker.
Mubarak was charged and arrested on Sept. 22, 2021. A federal grand jury indicted him in November 2021 and that indictment was superseded in June 2022, Parker said.
Making interstate threats is punishable by up to five years in prison, Parker said.