Fifty-three-year-old Danny Morgan of Glenville was charged in Freeborn County District Court Thursday with terroristic threats in connection to the bomb threat received Wednesday at the Green Mill Restaurant.

The call for a bomb threat — which turned out to be a false alarm — came in just before noon during the lunch hour.

The caller stated there would be an explosion at the restaurant that would hurt many people.

After the manager of the restaurant evacuated employees and customers from the establishment, Albert Lea police officers, Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Albert Lea firefighters searched inside, on top of and around the building thoroughly, and no sign of a bomb was found.

At about 12:30 p.m., employees and customers were allowed to re-enter the building.

The phone call of the threat was traced back to Morgan, according to court documents. When authorities went to Morgan’s house later that day, knowing that the phone call had been traced to his phone, the man agreed to talk.

He said he didn’t remember calling the Green Mill that day but that he had called the restaurant the previous evening to ask them to deliver a pizza, the court papers stated. The restaurant refused to deliver a pizza and that made him angry, he said.

Deputy Kurt Freitag checked Morgan’s cell phone and found that the last call was made to the Green Mill at 11:58 a.m. The call was 6 minutes and 48 seconds in length, according to the court files.

There was also a phone book in plain sight on the kitchen table that was open to the page with the Green Mill on it, the files stated.

The papers indicated that Morgan said the cell phone was his and that no one else had used it. He said he had been home and that no one else had been in the house with him.

Morgan faces maximum penalties of three years in prison and a $3,000 fine if he is convicted of the charge.