Bomb Threats

We got a bomb threat at work last week. It came in the mail, signed. Kind of freaky, who signs a bomb threat, an insane person likely to use a bomb is who. The threat came to one of our newer officers. She showed it to her supervisor and law enforcement was sent for. The thing is, the sender wasn't a client, she had never been a client and wasn't in our system.

The note stated that 50 pounds of tnt had been hidden in the building and would go off 24 hours after the note was received. The note contained many misspelling and improper verb tenses, so we were fairly sure that either the note wasn't written by and English instructor or was clevely disguised by a criminal mastermind.

The police wandered around, but failed to spot any concealed explosives. They then examined the note. The chance the note was sent by a client, or by a client family member, or by someone meaning to get a client in trouble seemed less likely as none of us recognised the name of the sender. One of the policemen did though. Apparently she was the ex-wife of a gentleman sent to prison. Apparently while in prison this man jumped the fence sexually and left the wife on the other side. Obviously she wasn't happy with the situation.

The police went to look for her and found she had left 5 days ago. The really weird thing though, is the man who went to prison was not on probation or parole. He was sent to prison directly for a crime. He was never under this office's supervision. The only connection the officer who had received the not had with the man was that she did a classification report on him after he was sentenced. This is an internal report prepared for the prison. It is not assigned by the court, but rather by the supervisor for the county of the sentencing court. No one outside of the department of correction would ever see this report. And other that the prison officials who intake and set the supervison level of the inmate, only a parole office who later supervises the inmate would see it. The only non-doc or bopp person who might see the report, might be the inmate who would have a right to question any info in it. So unless he told his wife who wrote it, I can't think how they got the officer's name.

Anyway, a week later the building is still here. Good thing too, because they never gave us permission to evacuate or send for bomb sniffing dogs. I guess if she put the bomb outside, the 400 inches of rain we have had fall might ruin the tnt, short the timer, ect. Otherwise I guess there wasn't a bomb.