Former Hall County Student Arrested For Tweeting Bomb Threat

HALL COUNTY, GA — A former Hall County student currently on probation for previously making bomb threats was arrested again Friday for posting a bomb threat against the school district on Twitter.

Destiny Kaila Sanchez, 19, of Payne Road, was charged with terroristic threats and disruption of a
public school following her arrest at 3:30 a.m. at a residence in the 2,000 block of
Broadway Drive in Gainesville.

Late Thursday afternoon, Aug. 8, the Sheriff’s Office received a tip from a person in Michigan about the threat posted on Twitter. The out-of-state resident was searching the
Internet for information about a bomb threat in her own area and stumbled across a Tweet related to a non-specific bomb threat directed at Hall County schools.

The Sheriff’s Office notified the Hall County School District, and investigators began working to find the person responsible for the threat.

As investigators were working the case, the Sheriff’s Office organized school resource officers to search the schools and extra patrol deputies for school areas. Explosive ordinance dog teams were also 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. 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 by the Hall County Sheriff’s Office.

This, however, wasn't the woman's first bomb threat toward a school.

In 2017, Sanchez was arrested for again making terroristic threats. The Hall County Sheriff's Office said Sanchez had around 100 notes in her backpack with the words "bomb," "bomba," "ISIS" and "bomb at 10:30" written on them, AccessWDUN.com reported.

"Destiny Kaila Sanchez was seen on hall surveillance cameras exiting a hall bathroom shortly before a written bomb threat had been found there," the district said in a statement. "After being brought to the office, Sanchez had her backpack searched, which contained hand written threats sealed in a plastic sandwich bag matching the threats found in the bathroom."