WINFIELD, W.Va. -- A Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to making a false bomb threat at Appalachian Power's John Amos Power Plant in Putnam County so he could leave work early.

According to the circuit court clerk's office, Bobby Sparks of Grayson, Ky., pleaded guilty on June 12 to a felony charge of making a terrorist threat.

He is scheduled to be sentenced by Circuit Judge O.C. Spaulding on Aug. 13.

Sparks was working as a welder for a contractor at the plant near St. Albans last November. State Police say he left a threatening note in a bathroom, then reported it to authorities.

The threat came after about eight other bomb threats at the plant, but police said then they didn't believe Sparks was responsible for those.

WINFIELD, W.Va. -- A Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to making a false bomb threat at Appalachian Power's John Amos Power Plant in Putnam County so he could leave work early.

According to the circuit court clerk's office, Bobby Sparks of Grayson, Ky., pleaded guilty on June 12 to a felony charge of making a terrorist threat.

He is scheduled to be sentenced by Circuit Judge O.C. Spaulding on Aug. 13.

Sparks was working as a welder for a contractor at the plant near St. Albans last November. State Police say he left a threatening note in a bathroom, then reported it to authorities.

The threat came after about eight other bomb threats at the plant, but police said then they didn't believe Sparks was responsible for those.