Union County Sheriff's Office issued the following announcement on Sept. 10.
Union County Sheriff’s detectives successfully identified the suspect responsible for sending several bomb threats to school officials this past week. On Friday, deputies arrested 26 year old Sarah Elizabeth Jones of Monroe and she is confined at the Union County Jail facing three felony counts of Making a False Report Concerning a Destructive Device, three counts of Cyberstalking and two counts of Identity Theft.
This investigation began late Tuesday evening after school officials at Sun Valley received an email from a bogus account reporting explosive devices at Sun Valley High, Sun Valley Middle and also an elementary school outside of Union County. UCSO deputies, School Resource Officers (SRO) and Union County Public Schools Officials searched both Union County schools that evening and again Wednesday to ensure the schools were safe. Detectives immediately began working to identify the origin of the threatening email.
On Thursday, a school official at Prospect Elementary received a similar threatening email concerning explosive devices on the school property. Deputies, SROs and detectives conducted a sweep of the school property with negative results. This bogus email appeared to originate from the same source as the one targeting Sun Valley.
Detectives quickly linked the source of the emails back to Jones and subsequently executed a search warrant at her Dellwood Drive residence where several electronic devices were seized. This investigation is ongoing.
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