Eby pleads guilty to bomb hoax
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June 4, 2013 |
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Ann Eby, 45, Bonners Ferry, pled guilty in
Bonner County on Monday to a charge of use of
weapons of mass destruction for phoning a false
bomb threat to the Bonner County Administrative
building November 5, 2012.
The
Bonner County Daily Bee
reported today that Eby admitted to phoning in the
fake bomb threat which emptied the building on
the eve of the last general election, the same
day she was scheduled to be sentenced for
possession of methamphetamine.
According to the Bee, Eby had been scheduled to
be sentenced on a March 8 Bonner County charge
of felony possession of a controlled substance.
Instead, she called in the fake bomb threat, and
she even goofed that up.
Sandpoint Police told Bee news editor Keith
Kinnaird shortly after the evacuation that she'd
confessed, and she admitted that she'd been
trying to call the Daily Bee at about 1 p.m. to
make the threat, but misdialed and called an
assisted living facility by mistake. Undaunted,
she blurted out that there was a bomb in the
federal building and hung up.
That threat was relayed to police, who evacuated
the building well before her sentencing time of
2 p.m. What she hadn't counted on was the police
back tracing her number; it wasn't too much
later that she was in custody and admitted that
she'd done it, telling police, according to the
Bee, that "she was having a bad day."
Sentencing has been set for July. |
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