Bond hearing set for man accused of SIU threats

A Chicago man charged with mailing threats of rapes, killings, bombings and beheadings to Southern Illinois University's Carbondale campus will get a chance to make his case for being eligible for bond.

Twenty-one-year-old Derrick Dawon Burns has been jailed since his arrest Monday on eight federal felonies related to the mailings investigators said were sent over a yearlong span in 2012 and last year. He's scheduled for a detention hearing Wednesday.

The FBI says most of the threatening letters suggested SIU would be targeted, with some of them bearing the signoff "Terrorist of America" or "Terrorist for Al-Qaida."

A spokeswoman for the school says Burns studied criminology and criminal justice at SIU-Carbondale, but is no longer a student.

Online court records don't show whether Burns has an attorney.