Bryan man arrested in connection with Texas A&M bomb threat

Texas A&M University police arrested the Bryan man accused of emailing a bomb threat to campus this month, officials said.

Dereon Tayronne Kelly, 22, was charged with making a terroristic threat after he allegedly emailed the Texas A&M Computing Information Services Department on Oct. 19, prompting an evacuation of the campus as law enforcement officials conducted a building by building search.

Investigators with the campus police department and several other law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, linked Kelly's cell phone activity to the incident.

He was arrested at the Brazos County Jail, where he was being held on unrelated charges. Kelly is in custody on a $150,000 bond.

A day before the A&M threat, another threat forced the evacuation of at least three buildings on Texas State University's campus in San Marcos. Brittany Nichole Henderson, 19, of Bryan was arrested without bond charged with making a terroristic threat and misdemeanor of making a false alarm.

Texas A&M police say that Henderson, who was arrested in connection with a bomb threat at Texas State University, remains a person of interest in the A&M bomb threat case, as well.

Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact the University Police at 979-845-2345.

In September, telephoned bomb threats at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as ones made to campuses in North Dakota and Ohio prompted tens of thousands of people to evacuate. No bombs were found at any of those campuses.