Prank Bomb Threat Leads To Arrests. Woman And Daughter Charged After Calls Made To McLean Home

[Ian David]

By LORETTA WALDMAN | Courant Staff Writer
September 20, 2007

SIMSBURY - A joke-gone-wrong earlier this month has led to the arrest of a town woman and her 27-year-old daughter and has cost the woman her job at McLean home.

But it was not the anonymous bomb threat Jennifer Hoffman called in to her mother while she was at work the evening of Sept. 4 that got the pair arrested, police said Wednesday. Rather, it was the decision the mother, Judy Hoffman, made not to tell police the bomb threat had been a joke after she received a second call from her daughter alerting her to the ruse.

"A minute and a half later, the daughter called back and said it was her but by then {Judy Hoffman} had alerted the police and administrators of the bomb scare," said Sgt. Fred Sifodaskalakis, head of the Simsbury police detective division. "I guess they hoped it would all blow over."

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[hobbit709]

1. Brilliant move there, just f**king brilliant.

I've pulled stunts in my time, but calling in a bomb threat was never on my list.