Bloomington police: Woman arrested after alleged bomb threat to dispatch center

A woman who called in a bomb threat to Bloomington police headquarters on Wednesday (Dec. 10) was identified, found, and booked into jail less than an hour later. 

According to a Thursday news release from the Bloomington police department, just after 1 p.m. on Wednesday, the Bloomington police department records division received a phone call from a woman who said that she was going to kill people and also planned to “shoot an explosive device” into the Monroe County central emergency dispatch center. 

The dispatch center is located on the second floor of the same building that houses Bloomington Transit’s downtown transit center at the corner of 3rd and Walnut streets. 

The same woman then called back moments later and demanded that the dispatch center be evacuated, according to the news release.

Officers were immediately sent to the dispatch center to start checking the area, and a detective began an investigation, according to the news release. Officers were able to trace the call to Star L. Bragg (49) and found her at home in the northwest part of Bloomington where she was arrested without incident. According to the Monroe County jail book-in report for Thursday, Bragg was booked into jail at 2 p.m. Wednesday on a charge of intimidation (level 6 felony), according to the release. 

Under Indiana state code, intimidation can range from a class A misdemeanor to a level 5 felony. It’s a level 6 felony, if the threat is to commit a forcible felony, which is one that involves the use or threat of force against a human being.