A 60-year-old Sebastian County woman who was arrested and charged with two Class D felonies after she threatened to blow up the office of Arkansas governor Sarah Sanders earlier in the year was sentenced after a plea deal in Sebastian County Circuit Court on Friday.
According to a press release from the office of Sebastian County prosecutor Daniel Shue, Susan Lynette Scott, who lives in the 3200 block of Oak Grove Street in Fort Smith, entered a guilty plea on Friday to Threatening a Catastrophe and Battery in the Second Degree. She changed her plea after being offered the plea deal by Shue's office.
Scott was arrested and booked into the Sebastian County Detention Center on June 14 of this year after she threatened to blow up the governors office. She also was charged with resisting arrest (misdemeanor) after she had an altercation with an officer who went to interrogate her.
The plea deal, which Shue said was approved by the victims in the case, was offered because Scott had a criminal history score of 0 and, given the details of the crimes, Scott was eligible for alternative sentencing.
She was sentenced to six years suspended imposition of sentence with 6 years supervised probation, assessed a $2,500 fine and court costs, and was ordered to have no contact with the office of the Governor (in person by phone text email or through a third party) or any contact with the governor's family or victims in the case.
She was sentenced to 78 days in the county jail but was also given credit for 78 days in the SCADC. As of 4 p.m. Friday afternoon, Scott remained in the custody of the Sebastian County Sheriff's Office awaiting release.
You can read Shue's press release by clicking the following link:
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