Teen Jailed For Bomb Threat After Daylight-Saving Error

Most people lose an hour's sleep when clocks spring forward for daylight-saving time, but one teen lost 12 days of freedom.

It all started when Fifteen year-old Cody Webb called a school district hot line to listen to a recorded message about school delays at 3:12 a.m.

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 checked their phone records and concluded Webb had made the threat because they found a record of his call.

Webb was arrested for phoning in a bomb threat and spent 12 days in the Westmoreland County Juvenile Detention Center.

But there was a problem -- the school didn't realize its recorder was still on Eastern Standard Time, meaning the bomb threat really came in at 4:17 a.m. daylight time, more than an hour after Webb's call.

Webb's attorney Tim Andrews said since teen refused to confess he spent 12 days in a juvenile detention center.

A judge finally released him when a state trooper failed to show up at a hearing. "The district attorney subpoenaed the cell phone records, and it didn't take more than a minute to see the times didn't match," Andrews said.

"I wasn't going to admit to something I didn't do", Webb said. "Me and God know I didn't do it".

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