Waiter Held by FBI After Phone Threats

A 21-year-old waiter in Middletown, N.Y., was arrested by the FBI on charges he terrified scores of women at colleges across the West by calling them and threatening to rape and kill them. Sean Robert Francis was charged with making more than 75 such calls since March. He was jailed without bail and could get five years in prison if convicted. “The nature of his comments was extraordinarily upsetting,” said Tiffany Arrington, a dorm director at the University of Kansas, where Francis allegedly made 14 calls in three hours.