Austin American-Statesman

Buildings emptied because of hoax

Hoax

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of operations for the Texas State University Police Department, said Thursday that officers there still think she’s responsibl­e for the hoax bomb threat that led the university to evacuate some buildings. Benitez, whose department filed the charges against Henderson, didn’t explain why their opinions weren’t swayed by the federal investigat­ion.

Two days after local authoritie­s first took her into custody, the FBI announced that it had arrested her ex-boyfriend for the same crime.

Dereon Tayronne Kelley, 22, faces up to 10 years in prison on a fed-

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