On this date in 2000 in a North Carolina courtroom a retired demolitions expert and former Ku Klux Klan leader, E. H. Hennis, received a ten-month suspended sentence and supervised probation for three years for using a fake bomb in a threatening hoax at an October 1998 Guilford County commissioners meeting where Hennis told the commissioners that their body parts would be picked up in pieces. He had been enraged when the county removed twenty abandoned mobile homes from his property after he refused a judge’s order to remove them in 1998. In February, 2008, Hennis, 84, filed to run at-large for a spot as a Guilford County commissioner.