DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A woman who threatened to hurt the DeKalb County sheriff and blow up the county jail was arrested on Friday.
According to a press release from the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, citing arrest warrants, 53-year-old Tonia Johnson of Decatur had made numerous phone calls to the sheriff's office as far back as March 18.
During this time she allegedly "used language that threatened bodily harm to Sheriff Melody Maddox and agency staff members, and she threatened to 'blow up the jail' where her son is in custody," according to the sheriff's office.
Johnson was later arrested without incident at a business on Dogwood Drive SW in Conyers. She was charged with two misdemeanor counts of harassing phone calls.
Authorities didn't provide any details regarding what may have brought out the violent threats aside from having a family member in the jail.
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