No bomb was found, and operations returned to normal at the DeKalb County jail after a threat led to a lockdown Thursday afternoon.
Around 2:30 p.m., a female pulled up to the jail in the prison transport area – a secure area where prisoners enter and leave the building – and told DeKalb Sheriff’s deputies that there was a bomb in her car, sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Adrion Bell told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“She said that her sister put the bomb in the car,” Bell said.
The woman, 47-year-old Sewona Ketegou, was taken into custody and will have a mental evaluation, he said. Charges were pending.
The DeKalb County police bomb squad was called, and the entire east side of the building where the white four-door sedan was parked was closed, Bell said.
The car was taken away for further examination, and the lockdown ended just before 6 p.m.
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