Another week, another hoax.
Police in Georgia have arrested 30-year-old Terresha Lucas for terroristic threats against her neighbors.
In December of last year, black resident of a neighborhood in Douglasville (a suburb of Atlanta) began receiving notes from a person who claimed to be a white male member of the KKK.
One resident told CBS46 that “the letter is using the N-word, talking about the KKK, hanging people, killing kids, killing whole families, and setting houses on fire.”
"“The notes threatened to burn their houses down and kill them and said that they didn’t belong in the neighborhood,” DPD detective Nathan Shumaker confirmed in a statement last week.
Similar notes — all left in the middle of the night — were found in the residents’ mailboxes on Feb. 17, Feb. 22, March 1 and March 3, police said. At least seven black residents reported receiving such notes, but police believe there were likely more.
Detectives went door to door in the neighborhood checking doorbell and security cameras after the first notes were reported. They walked around the neighborhood distributing flyers seeking any information, police said, but received no leads.
“By mid-March, we really didn’t have anything to go on,” Shumaker said.
After a sixth month hiatus, the final note was placed on Sept. 6, police said.
The case broke when evidence was found linking the notes to the Lucas’ house. Police obtained a warrant and searched her home, which yielded evidence tying the suspect to the incidents, according to Shumaker."
Lucas now faces eight counts of terrorist threatening.
Here’s the story CBS46 did back in March about the threatening letters.