A bomb threat was made against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's sister in Charleston, South Carolina over the weekend, according to local police. The Charleston Police Department responded to a politically charged email regarding the justice's sister Amanda Coney Williams on Monday. The unnamed writer of the email claimed to have created and placed a pipe bomb inside Williams' mailbox that would detonate if opened, according to a police report obtained by USA TODAY. The email was sent to an employee at the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office shortly before 11 p.m. on Saturday. Charleston Police said Williams never received the message herself, USA Today reports. Officials later deemed the threat to be a false alarm, the police report stated. No arrests have been made, though an investigation is underway.
The letter sent to the sheriff’s office employee said the bomb was crafted using "a 1×8-inch threaded galvanized pipe, end caps, a kitchen timer, some wires, metal clips and homemade black powder." "I’ve constructed a pipe bomb which I recently placed in Amy Coney Barrett’s sister’s mailbox at her home at (redacted) Charleston, SC. The device`s detonation will be triggered as soon as the mailbox is next opened. Free Palestine!" Williams' husband David told police he had no clue who could have sent the email, according to the report. However he said someone who delivered pizza to them Saturday evening may possibly be connected to the sender. Authorities have warned that federal judges recently have been sent pizza to their homes, presumably as a form of intimidation, Reuters reported last week.
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