An Ohio nutjob is facing years behind bars after she reportedly phoned in dozens of bomb threats to government offices in Mississippi investigating Nolan Wells’ death.
Michelle Francine Edwards allegedly left 29 alarming calls with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and the George County Chancery Clerk’s Office last month threatening “the clock is ticking” and warning “Do not go outside,” WBTV reported, according to a federal complaint.
Edwards, of Cincinnati, allegedly made two sets of calls on July 23 using a blocked number, according to the complaint.
The clerk’s office received 21 calls from a blocked number in the span of eight minutes that day.
The sheriff’s office dispatch then received eight calls using *67 to mask the caller’s identity in less than 20 minutes, the outlet reported.
That masked dialer said, “y’all got a bomb outside, don’t come outside b**ch,” and later, “y’all still in there?”
The ominous threats triggered a building lockdown and a bomb sweep with K-9 units, investigators said.
After submitting an emergency disclosure request to both C-Spire and Verizon to identify the phone number used to place the calls, investigators linked it back to Edwards.
Cell tower data from the night of the incident also showed the phone used to make the calls had “bedded down” near the loon’s address in Cincinnati.
She was slapped with threatening communication in interstate commerce charges Thursday.
The threats came in the weeks after investigators, including the sheriff’s office, opened a probe into the death of Mississippian Nolan Wells.
Wells, 18, was found dead July 6 after vanishing during a Fourth of July boating trip to Horn Island, Mississippi, police said.
The football player, who is black, was visiting the remote island with friends, all of whom were white. But Wells decided to stay behind while they returned inland because of a mechanical issue with the boat, according to the mother of one of his friends.
Though nothing has pointed authorities to suggest foul play, Wells’ family has retained civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
Officials also charged Joseph Alfredo Vasquez Dumarce with interstate transmission of a threatening communication last week after he sent a series of threatening messages to Judge Ashlee Cole, the stepmom of one of Wells’ friends.
The messages from social media account “yaeyae962” allegedly sent Cole — a judge in Jackson County — death threats, threats to strangle her children, and said bombs were being sent to her address.
Edwards faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release.
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