A former student was arrested Friday morning after posting a threatening message against Hall County schools on social media, officials said.
The suspect, identified as 19-year-old Destiny Kaila Sanchez of Murrayville, was taken into custody about 3:30 a.m. at a residence in the 2000 block of Broadway Drive in Gainesville, Hall County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Derreck Booth said.
“The individual is ... currently on probation for making bomb threats,” the school district said in the said in a statement.
The target of the earlier bomb threats was not clear.
A $2,000 reward had been issued for the suspect after a Michigan resident contacted the sheriff’s office late Thursday afternoon about a Twitter post, which referenced “a non-specific bomb threat to Hall County schools,” officials said.
The Michigan woman had been searching the internet for information about a bomb threat in her own area when she stumbled across the tweet, according to the sheriff’s office.
School resource officers searched schools, extra patrol deputies were called in and dog teams were placed on standby.
“Using various digital investigative techniques, detectives developed information resulting in the execution of several search warrants that led to Sanchez’s arrest,” Booth said. “She was taken into custody without incident.”
Sanchez was booked into the Hall County Jail, where she was being held without bond late Friday morning. The case remains under investigation.
“On behalf of the Hall County School District and all its stakeholders, I would like to thank our incredible partners at the Hall County Sheriff’s Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for their support and for bringing this situation quickly to an end,” Superintendent Will Schofield said. “I apologize for the stress this incident caused our community, and we look forward to another normal and safe day in the Hall County School District.”
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