Eby pleads guilty to bomb hoax
Robin
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.