A 31-year-old Volusia County man has been arrested and faces charges for allegedly making a bomb threat that evacuated Pine Ridge High School on Friday.
Deputies arrested Matthew Osborne after they said he walked into a bank on Howland Boulevard six minutes after the threat was called in to the school.
Osborne said he felt sick and was experiencing chest pains and shortness of breath. An ambulance arrived at the bank to take Osborne to Florida Hospital Fish Memorial, in Orange City.
Minutes later, paramedics called for deputies, saying Osborne punched one of the paramedics in the throat.
Deputies, who by that time had traced the bomb threat to Osborne's phone, arrived at the hospital and realized the man accused of attacking the paramedic was Osborne.
Investigators seized Osborne's cell phone and, after obtaining a search warrant, found an outgoing 911 call made at the same time as the bomb threat.
Osborne was released from the hospital and taken directly to the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach on charges of battery on an emergency medical technician.
Deputies said Osborne will also be charged with making a false bomb report and disrupting an education institution.