Utah student arrested for threatening to blow up nuclear reactor if football team lost

A feminine scholar on the College of Utah was booked Wednesday after allegedly threatening to detonate a nuclear reactor on campus if the college’s soccer workforce had misplaced its recreation in opposition to San Diego State on Saturday.

The 21-year-old girl allegedly posted on the social media app Yik Yak that she would  “detonate the nuclear reactor that's situated within the College of Utah inflicting a mass destruction,” based on a Salt Lake Metropolis Sheriff’s Workplace affidavit obtained by radio station KSL.

Utah and San Diego State football game on Sept. 17, 2022.
Utah and San Diego State soccer recreation on Sept. 17, 2022.
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Utah fans on Sept. 17, 2022.
Utah followers on Sept. 17, 2022.
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The scholar was arrested for making a menace of terrorism, based on the report. The affidavit additionally said that the lady was “conscious of the place the reactor is situated and attends class in the identical constructing the place the reactor is housed.”

A 19-year-old Utah scholar had been arrested for a similar crime in August for making a bomb menace on Yik Yak directed at a college constructing. He claimed the alleged menace was a joke and that he had no intention of carrying it out, based on KSL’s web site.

The Thirteenth-ranked Utes downed San Diego State, 35-7, on Saturday behind 4 landing passes by quarterback Cam Rising.

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