Tone's Worker Charged With Making Bomb Threat

From an Ankeny Police Department news release:

Ankeny police said this morning that a 15-year worker at the plant placed a bomb threat.

Officers have charged Desiree Brandon Dixon, 40, of Ames with making the threat. A department news release said that the Polk County Dispatch Center received the call at 7:15 a.m. reporting a bomb at the plant and telling dispatchers that people would be killed.

Dispatchers identified the cell phone number and tracked the location to Tone's Spices, 2452 S.E. Creekview Drive in Ankeny. The owner of the cell phone was found working in the Tone's building, and told detectives he had noticed his cell phone missing earlier in the morning.

The police news release does not say how officers determined Dixon as a suspect. She was working at the time she allegedly placed the call and confessed to officers.

Authorities said she will face charges of making threats, a class D felony; and fourth-degree theft for taking the cell phone, a serious misdemeanor.

Dixon is a 15 year employee of Tone’s Spices and was working at the time she placed the telephone call to Polk County Dispatch. Dixon was taken into custody at 9:30 a.m. while at work and, according to police, confessed to detectives.