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Schuylkill woman gets 2 to 4 years in state prison over bomb threat

A Schuylkill County woman whose bomb threats shut down county buildings in 2016 will serve two to four years in state prison followed by two years on probation.

Jaclyn M. Hollywood, 35, of Saint Clair, pleaded guilty to threats to use weapons of mass destruction, terroristic threats, criminal use of a communication facility, and disorderly conduct before Judge James P. Goodman.

Hollywood in January 2017 admitted to police that she left a bomb threat with the answering service for the Schuylkill County Children and Youth Services Agency on Dec. 12, 2016.

She was charged by Pottsville investigating officer Detective Kirk Becker after an investigation revealed that Hollywood had called the agency at 8:15 a.m. Dec. 12, 2016, and told an answering service employee that a bomb was set to explode in the county courthouse at 9:30 a.m. that day.

The threat triggered an evacuation of the courthouse and all other county buildings.

The county sheriff’s office and police searched the buildings, but no bombs were found.

Police were able to trace the call back to Hollywood’s cellphone. They found her at home.

Hollywood told Becker that she was scheduled to attend a hearing with Children and Youth that day, and admitted to making the bomb threat call from her cellphone.

She said there never was any device actually placed.