{"id":311264,"date":"2026-10-21T21:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311264\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T21:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:06:11","slug":"erie-man-charged-released-over-tuesday-bomb-squad-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311264\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie man charged, released over Tuesday bomb squad incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We now know the identity of the man connected to the disturbance that prompted a bomb squad investigation and multiple lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">John Drumm, 61, was first arrested on Tuesday after he was seen waving a gun around and was later found by Erie police on East 38th Street in front of JoAnna Connell Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to an arrest report, Drumm was charged with possessing instruments of a crime, simple assault, and disorderly conduct and later released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:No &#039;explosive devices&#039; found in East 38th St. incident that affected schools;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/joanna-connell-elementary-placed-on-lockdown-bomb-squad-called\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0No &#8216;explosive devices&#8217; found in East 38th St. incident that affected schools\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That same day, Drumm was arrested a second time at the same location and charged with disorderly conduct and released again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Tuesday, the bomb squad was called after officers said they saw suspicious packaging and wiring in Drumm&#8217;s car; their K9 alerted and they knew Drumm&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Court records show he was previously charged with harassment and terroristic threats as recently as August of this year. Erie police said Drumm is not a current danger to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We now know the identity of the man connected to the disturbance that prompted a bomb squad investigation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-311264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}