COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — A woman threatened to blow up University of Illinois Hospital in a desperate attempt to get her ex-boyfriend, a hospital employee, on the phone, prosecutors alleged.
Iwanna Scroggins, 50, was arrested at University of Illinois Hospital on Monday on charges of disorderly conduct after prosecutors said she threatened to bring a bomb to the hospital unless someone managed to get her ex-boyfriend on the phone.
According to a police report, Scroggins called the hospital Aug. 4 and said if she couldn't talk to her boyfriend, she would "be there in five to 10 minutes with a bomb and kill you and him."
The woman told police later that she did not have a bomb and was only trying to scare her boyfriend into getting on the phone, prosecutors said.
"How can I release someone who makes a threat like that?" Cook County Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. said Tuesday when Scroggins appeared briefly for a court hearing.
Bourgeois set bail for Scroggins at $50,000.
Scroggins, of the 6300 block of South Troy Street in Chicago Lawn, was admitted to the hospital's psychiatric unit, according to a police report.
Hospital officials declined to comment.
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