Police: Mom made threat of blowing up high school
A Hazel Park mother is jailed on $200,000 cash bond after police say she made a false threat to blow up Hazel Park High School when officials there called her about an incident involving her son.
Hazel Park Police Chief Brian Buchholz said Ryan Nicole Dunlap, 32 made the threat when school officials contacted her last week.
“Her son attends the high school and the staff was dealing with some disciplinary issues with him,” Buchholz. “During the conversation she made a comment over the phone to the dean of students, saying ‘now your school is going to get blown’ up.”
School officials reported the incident to police, who arrested her Nov. 28, and she was arraigned the next day in Hazel Park 43rd District Court.
Police arrested her son the same day his mother was charged in court, police said.
The son, 15, was arrested on a felony count of resisting and obstructing police, and using an electronic device to make a threat in a separate incident, Buchholz said.
The son is being held at Children’s Village, a county detention facility for juvenile offenders.
Police said the incident involving the son is what led school officials to contact his mother.
Buchholz said the teen made a threat Nov. 29 on social media.
“He threatened two girls who he thought were snitches,” Buchholz said. “He said he was ‘going to take them out’ for contacting the school about something he had posted on Instagram.”
After school officials found out about the threat on Instagram, they contacted Dunlap and she made the threat against the school, Buchholz said.
Because the son is a juvenile, police are not releasing his name and his case is being handled through the county’s juvenile court
system.
Dunlap is scheduled for a probable cause conference in Hazel Park’s district court at 1:40 p.m. Dec. 13.
She is charged with a felony and two misdemeanors.
The most serious charge is the allegation of making a false report or threat of ter- rorism, which is punishable by up to up to 20 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.
Dunlap is also charged with two misdemeanor counts of malicious use of telecommunications services. Each of those two counts carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Police said the only criminal history Dunlap has on her record is a misdemeanor conviction for malicious destruction of property.
Charges against Dunlop and her son, 15, come after a recent spate of threats against schools in the area.
On Nov. 15 threats against Hazel Park High School were made on social media.
Ferndale police the same day arrested a male student, 16, at Ferndale High School after a threatening note was found in a restroom at the school.
A girl, 16, was arrested Nov. 14 in a separate incident after Ferndale police said she made threats on social media that led officials to close the Ferndale High School and Middle School campus that day.