Kentucky sorority sister arrested for ‘joke’ bomb threat at her college

A sorority sister from a “small city” was busted for jokingly making a bomb menace on the Kentucky school campus she attends, in keeping with studies.

Hailee Reed, 20, was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening and was taken into custody by police at Western Kentucky College, the place she goes to high school, WBKO reported.

College police initially investigated suspicious supplies that authorities thought may be an explosive gadget round midday on one a part of campus, although it was later decided to only be development materials, the tv station reported.

Shortly following that unfounded suspicion, police mentioned an nameless menace was posted on social media that then zeroed in on a campus parking construction, in keeping with the Bowling Inexperienced Every day Information. The newspaper reported police decided that scare was additionally unfounded and shortly discovered an individual of curiosity who admitted the menace had no validity.

“Sadly, a pupil made that put up on the Yik Yak social media web site,” WKU Public Info Officer Melissa Bailey instructed WBKO. “The scholar posted it to be a joke. These issues are taken very critically, so we examine these threats to the fullest. They have been taken into custody.”

Reed reportedly hails from the town of Stanford in Kentucky, which has a inhabitants of lower than 4,000. She can be apparently a part of a sorority on campus, Alpha Xi Delta.

“At first, going by the recruitment course of was very intimidating for me. Since I’m from such a small city, being in organizations like a sorority have been unparalleled to me,” the junior wrote on a July 5 Instagram put up linked to a web page run by Western Kentucky College’s Greek life.