A New Jersey woman was arrested after she allegedly made a false report of a bomb inside the Ocean County Mall.
On May 30 at 7:42 p.m., Toms River Police received a call from the Ocean County Mall on Hooper Avenue in Toms River. Workers at the mall told police they had received a call from a person who said, “There’s a bomb,” and then hung up the phone.
Several police units responded to the mall and established a perimeter. After searching inside and outside the mall, investigators found no explosive threats.
Officials later traced the call to a specific cellphone. They then determined the phone was used by 24-year-old Showander Descarte of Manchester, New Jersey. Police executed a search warrant on Descarte’s home Tuesday and found a cellphone with a serial number matching the phone used to make the bomb threat, investigators said.
Descarte was arrested and charged with creating a false public alarm and terroristic threats. She is being held in the Ocean County Jail on $10,000 bail.
Descarte’s arrest is unrelated to another bomb threat that was made to the mall on May 27. Police continue to investigate that incident.
