A Florida lady was arrested and prosecuted after reportedly making threats against her daughter’s high school after a lunchtime altercation.
According to a court complaint filed in Brevard County, Brandie Covington, 40, is charged with threatening to throw, project, place, or discharge a harmful object after reportedly threatening to “[burn] the school down” following a heated confrontation with school workers.
According to an arrest affidavit obtained by PEOPLE, police were summoned to Rockledge High School — approximately 50 miles outside Orlando — on Tuesday, Oct. 21, when a cafeteria worker reported receiving a threatening call.
The caller, named as Covington, was “irate because her daughter’s boyfriend had his school-supplied lunch taken away from him, due to a lack of funds in his account,” according to the police report.
According to police, Covington proceeded to “yell and cuss” when the cafeteria worker was describing the procedure for “dealing with students without money in their account.”
The employee then informed authorities that Covington stated that she would be coming to the school district’s office and then “be over there to blow that f—— school up” before disconnecting up.
A school resource officer subsequently reported the phone conversation to police, who apprehended Covington at her home later that day.
Police, who interviewed with the mother at her home, stated that “she acknowledged she was ‘pissed’ when she made both calls… as she called last week and was told an employee of the school would call her back, but never did.”
Police said Covington denied making threats to the school.
Threatening to discharge a destructive device is a second-degree felony in Florida, punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Covington was eventually freed from the Brevard County Jail Complex on Thursday, October 23, on a $75,000 bond, according to Florida Today. She is scheduled to appear in court on November 18.
