According to reports, a sister from a “small town” was busted for threatening to make a bomb jokingly on a Kentucky college campus.
Hailey Reid, 20, was charged with first-degree terroristic intimidation and taken into custody by police at Western Kentucky University, where she attends school, WBKO reported.
The television station reported that university police had originally investigated suspicious material that officials thought might have been an explosive device in a part of the campus around noon, although it was later determined to be just construction material. was.
Soon after that unfounded suspicion, police said an anonymous threat was posted on social media, which was later zeroed in on a campus parking structure, According to the Bowling Green Daily News. The newspaper reported that police determined that the intimidation was also unfounded and soon found a person of interest who admitted that the threat had no validity.
“Unfortunately, a student posted that on the Yik Yak social media site,” WKU Public Information Officer Melissa Bailey told WBKO. ,posted by student This to be a joke. Those things are taken very seriously, so we thoroughly investigate those dangers. He was taken into custody.”
Reid is reportedly a resident of the city Stanford in Kentucky, which has a population of less than 4,000. He is also apparently part of a sorcery in the complex, Alpha Xi Delta.
“Earlier, it was very intimidating for me to go through the recruitment process. Since I’m from such a small town, to be in organizations Kind of a sorority was unheard of to me,” Jr. wrote on an Instagram post linked to a page run by Western Kentucky University’s Greek Life on July 5.