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CHARLESTON, Ill. (WAND) - A woman is in custody after police say she made a bomb threat in Charleston.

The Charleston Police Department said in a Sept. 9 press release via Facebook that officers responded to a report of a bomb threat Monday along 18th Street.  

CPD said that witnesses received the bomb threat over the phone. 

Charleston police then arrested 34-year-old Marquanita Darughtery one block away from the building after they said she had made a threat towards the building and those inside. 

Darughtery was taken to Coles County Jail, and police are still investigating. 

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