Elberton woman awaits sentencing after guilty plea in Athens bomb threat

An Elbert County woman who worked as a security guard at a Democratic campaign office in Athens pleads guilty to making a bomb threat against the facility. The threat was leveled in December, a day before Georgia Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock came to Athens. Federal prosecutors say 35 year-old Jessica Higginbotham pleaded guilty to one count of communicating a bomb. She’ll be sentenced in September. She faces up to ten years in prison.

From the US Justice Dept…

The indictment alleges that Higginbotham made a threat to bomb the Athens-Clarke County Democratic Committee Campaign building in Athens, Georgia, on Dec. 3, 2022, and lied to federal agents on Dec. 4, 2022, about her knowledge of a specific email address and the use of the TextNow communication application on her Samsung cellphone, both of which belong to her.

The case was investigated by the FBI, the U.S. Capitol Police, the Athens-Clarke County Police Department and the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office.

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