Youngstown Police have charged a Cleveland man accused of making a bomb threat at Gateway Community College.

A dispatcher got a call on Friday from a man at EGCC claiming to be “armed and dangerous and has a bomb and if he doesn't hear sirens in the next 5 minutes, he will blow the place sky high".

Several officers rushed to the college’s common area where they found 41-year-old Matthew Alpeza still holding a security guard’s phone in one hand and an earphone charger in the other as if it was a detonator.

The security guard told officers that he wasn’t sure what was going on with Alpeza, who said he didn’t have a bomb but needed to get officers to come because people were after him and he was in fear for his life.

Alpeza was arrested and charged with one felony count of vandalism, as well as misdemeanor charges of making false alarms and resisting arrest. Alpeza was also wanted for failing to show up in court earlier to answer a charge of aggravated menacing.

During an arraignment held on Monday, another court hearing was scheduled for later this month.