Detroit woman sentenced for bomb threat against school after child was unable to be in school play

A Detroit woman was sentenced this month for making false bomb threats after her daughter was unable to appear in a high school play.

Crystal Royster, 42, called in a pair of false threats alleging there was a bomb at Lake Shore High School in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, about 17.6 miles northeast of Detroit, on March 12, 2025, the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office said in a release on Thursday.

Royster made the threats after her daughter was sent home for being sick, thereby preventing her under school policy from appearing in the school play that day. Over 700 people were evacuated after the threats came in, and local police cleared the school and found no explosives…

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