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Woman Who Threatened to Blow Up LIC Building Arrested, Police Say

By Jeanmarie Evelly | July 8, 2016 11:24am | Updated on July 11, 2016 8:26am
 Police say Vernice Brown called in a bomb threat to a building in Long Island City in May.
Police say Vernice Brown called in a bomb threat to a building in Long Island City in May.
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LONG ISLAND CITY — Police arrested a woman who threatened to blow up a Queens medical supply company in May, the NYPD said Thursday.

Vernice Brown, 21, called Propper Manufacturing Company at 36-04 Skillman Ave. and made the phony bomb threat around 10:40 a.m. on May 19, then sent an email to the company a half hour later again threatening to blow up the building, police said.

Brown, who the NYPD identified as a suspect in June, was arrested on charges including aggravated harassment, making a terrorist threat and making a false report, police said Thursday.

An NYPD spokeswoman did not immediately have details on when and where her arrest took place, and the Queens District Attorney's Office did not have information on her defense attorney Friday morning.