Additional reporting by Annick Joseph.

UNC’s Department of Public Safety has made an arrest in their investigation of the bomb scare on campus Thursday afternoon.

Police have arrested 18-year-old Daniel Berkman Fischbeck, a UNC student from Charlotte. He’s being charged with making a false bomb report in a public building, which is a felony.

The false report was issued on the social media site Yik Yak. Police officers entered Rita Balaban’s Economics 101 class in Carroll Hall at around noon, reportedly to make an arrest.

UNC journalism student Annick Joseph spoke with Rita Balaban…

 

…as well as Karla Garcia, a student in the class…

 

…Tricia Robinson, student records assistant at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication…

 

…Jay Eubank, director of career services at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication…

 

…and DPS spokesperson Randy Young.

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