Indictment issued in bomb threat at Cheney speech

DRY BRANCH - A man accused of phoning a bomb threat for Vice President Dick Cheney&#39;s recent speech in Macon was indicted Tuesday. <br> <br> Twenty-nine-year-old Roland Brown is charged with making a bomb threat and threatening the vice president, both felonies. The threat was phoned to authorities on Friday, when Cheney visited a Macon fund-raiser for Representative Saxby Chambliss, a Republican who is seeking a Senate seat. <br> <br> The threat did not disrupt Cheney&#39;s speech or an earlier roundtable discussion with contributors. Department of Justice officials would not elaborate on the nature of the bomb threat, when it was made, or what led them to charge Brown. <br> <br> Brown lives in Dry Branch, about ten miles east of Macon in Twiggs County.

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