A 58-year-old New Haven man is locked up in the Whalley jail, accused of phoning a bomb threat that cleared out City Hall for two and a half hours late Thursday afternoon.
There was no bomb.
Police announced the arrest Friday afternoon. They said the man, who had recently been released from prison after a four-year stint on a larceny charge, did not offer a motive for making the threat. He is being held on $75,000 bond, charged with first-degree threatening and second-degree breach of peace.