Crime & Safety

Lunch Lady Threatens to Blow Up School: Prosecutor

An employee of the Harper Woods School District allegedly threatened to blow up the high school, Wayne County authorities said.

HARPER WOODS, MI – A school lunch assistant was charged Wednesday with making a false bomb threat after she allegedly threatened to blow up the Harper Woods High School, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said.

Ebony M. Holloway, 28, of Harper Woods, allegedly called in a phone threat to blow up the high school just before 11 a.m. on Monday, the prosecutor’s office said. Holloway works at an elementary school for the Harper Woods School District.

Holloway was arraigned in 32-A District Court in Harper Woods on Wednesday, when she was formally charged with making a “false report of threat of bomb/harmful device,” a felony punishable by up to four years in prison.

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Holloway’s bond was set at $25,000, with the condition that she stay away from Harper Woods school property.

Her probable cause conference will be held at 1:30 p.m. March 16, and her preliminary examination is set for 1:30 p.m. on March 23, both in 32-A District Court.

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