Moberly man charged with threat to nursing home

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Moberly man was charged Wednesday on allegations that he threatened to "clear out" a nursing home.

Rickey Ridgeway, 53, is charged with felony counts and making a terrorist threat.

Ridgeway called Valley View Health and Rehabilitation on Tuesday and asked for his wife but she was busy, according to a probable cause statement. Ridgeway began swearing at the person who answered the phone and told her he would "blow her away and clear out the whole place," the statement says.

Another employee put the facility on lockdown after hearing of the threat, investigators say. Ridgeway denied making a threat, according to the statement.

Ridgeway was in the Randolph County Jail on Wednesday on a $5,000 cash-only bond.