The judge ordered McGann held in a mental health facility for a year, or until he's deemed competent to be arraigned on the charges.
He faces three charges: placing a false bomb; placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in a mass transportation facility and making a terrorist threat.
McGann is accused of carrying a phony bomb into LaGuardia Aug. 1 in a backpack.
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