NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A Bronx woman was arrested for threatening to shoot up a chain restaurant and sports bar in New Rochelle over the weekend, authorities announced Monday.
Jayleen Mota, 21, was arrested on April 16, and charged with making threatening interstate communications, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
According to police, Mota threatened to shoot up a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant and sports bar located on LeCount Place in New Rochelle on Saturday night.
On April 15, the New Rochelle Police Department received a call from a caller who had received an initial text message from an unknown person, later identified as Mota, threatening to "shoot up" the nationwide chain restaurant and sports bar. The text message further stated that there would be a "massacre" and "lots of people are going down."
A subsequent text message stated that "[t]odays a busy night because of the game DON’T TAKE ME AS A JOKE lots of people will die DON’T CALL THE STORE AND RUIN MY PLANS I’m gonna make the news," court documents stated.
That same day, the NRPD received a call from a second individual caller who had received an identical text message from an unknown person threatening to "shooting[] up" the restaurant and commit a "massacre," stating, "lots of people are going down.
The NRPD took the phone number from which the text-message threats were sent and traced the number back to Mota.
After a search warrant, the FBI and New Rochelle Police searched Mota’s apartment and found both Mota and the cellphone from which she had sent the threats, officials said.
After informing Mota of her Miranda rights, she consented to being interviewed and admitted that she had sent text messages threatening to shoot up the restaurant to five individuals.
"As alleged, Ms. Mota sent a series of text messages in which she threatened to commit a mass shooting at a crowded New Rochelle restaurant. Communicating threats like those we allege she made can waste valuable law enforcement resources and cause unnecessary alarm in our communities. Today’s charges should serve as a reminder for all that the FBI takes these types of threats seriously, and there will be consequences for those who make them," FBI Assistant Director in Charge Michael J. Driscoll said.
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