By Todd Hatton
Murray, KY – A Chicago man faces up 10 years in federal prison after admitting that he threatened to bomb the Southern Illinois University Carbondale campus and kill 4,000 students and staff. Twenty-three-year-old Maurice Wiggins pleaded guilty Thursday in Benton, Illinois to a felony charge of making a bomb threat. Authorities allege Wiggins made the threat via the Internet August 29th, sending a message from his cell phone to the 20,000-student university's crime-watch website. Wiggins allegedly said he planned to bomb three dormitories and a student center. Wiggins also faces up to $250,000 in fines when sentenced February 27th in East St. Louis.