Man charged with causing security alert
58-year-old Noel McGinn of Mayo Drive, Ballycastle, is charged with possessing articles for use with a petrol bomb and placing an article to cause a bomb hoax at Ballycastle Police Station on March 5, 2015.
McGinn is also accused of making three hoax phone calls - two to daily newspapers and one to a weekly newspaper - on March 13 last year saying there were bombs at various police stations.
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Hide AdHe also allegedly made a similar call on March 14 to the emergency services saying there was a bomb at a pub in Ballycastle.
The accused is further charged with possessing a magnet in connection with fraud on March 25, 2014.
He is currently on bail and is due back in court in June.
Knife-related charges
A MAN has had knife-related charges withdrawn.
Patrick Gerard McGothigan (28), whose address was given as Red Road near Ballintoy, had been charged with wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm to a man and possession of an offensive weapon, a knife.
The charges related to October 19 last year.
The charges were withdrawn at Coleraine Magistrates Court on Monday May 9.