{"id":845593,"date":"2025-05-03T18:11:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T23:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/man-makes-up-bomb-threat-to-prevent-girlfriend-from-leaving-on-exotic-cruise-without-him\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T18:11:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T23:11:52","slug":"man-makes-up-bomb-threat-to-prevent-girlfriend-from-leaving-on-exotic-cruise-without-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/man-makes-up-bomb-threat-to-prevent-girlfriend-from-leaving-on-exotic-cruise-without-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Makes Up Bomb Threat to Prevent Girlfriend from Leaving on Exotic Cruise Without Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"maincontent\">\n<div>\n<p><span>By  Spooky on  April 17th, 2025 Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odditycentral.com\/category\/news\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A Michigan teen was recently convicted to eight months in prison for reporting a false bomb threat on a cruise ship to prevent his girlfriend from going on a cruise without him.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2024, a few minutes after the Carnival Sunrise cruise ship left the port of Miami, Florida, for Jamaica, Carnival Cruise Lines received a mysterious email that read: \u201cHey, I think someone might have a bomb on your sunrise cruise ship.\u201d\u00a0 This simple one-liner set in motion a costly security operation that involved both the US and Jamaican Coast Guard and the thorough search of the Sunshine\u2019s more than 1,000 rooms. After several hours of delay, the Sunshine was able to continue its journey to the Caribbean, but that wasn\u2019t the end of the story. Authorities managed to trace the email to a 19-year-old man in Michigan who later admitted to reporting the false bomb threat, claiming that he was trying to prevent his girlfriend and her family from going on the cruise without him.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.odditycentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cruise.jpg\" alt width=\"750\" height=\"500\"  ><span id=\"more-83377\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/white-cruise-ship-under-cloudy-sky-LWFdBz4d6nE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alonso Reyes\/Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Darrell Lowe II, of Bailey, Michigan, told FBI agents that he made up the Sunrise bomb threat because he was upset. His girlfriend and her family had booked tickets for the cruise and left him to take care of the pets while they were gone. That didn\u2019t sit well with him at all, and he decided to do something about it. Apparently, ruining their cruise was the only thing he could think of.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6MPRONCY4JGR7PGBBMKYXNKXRE\">\u201cLowe admitted he sent the message because he was upset that the family went on the cruise, while leaving him behind to care for their pets,\u201d Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler wrote in a court filing. \u201cAnyone making a bomb threat should expect to be taken at his word. Fortunately, this particular hoax did not result in physical injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cBomb threats are not a laughing matter and are extremely irresponsible,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-wdmi\/pr\/2024_0925_LoweII_Darrell_Indictment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0Cheyvoryea Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Michigan. \u201cWhen individuals make false hoax threats, they divert critical law enforcement resources and spread unnecessary fear. The FBI takes all threats to life seriously and will ensure that those who resort to this kind of intimidation face the appropriate consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old faced up to five years in prison for his stupid hoax, but earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney sentenced him to just 8 months behind bars. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/2025\/04\/michigan-teen-sentenced-to-prison-for-making-fake-bomb-threat-to-cruise-ship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MLive<\/a>, the teen wrote a letter to the Judge, taking full responsibility for his actions and apologizing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Spooky<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odditycentral.com\/news\/man-makes-up-bomb-threat-to-prevent-girlfriend-from-leaving-on-exotic-cruise-without-him.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=man-makes-up-bomb-threat-to-prevent-girlfriend-from-leaving-on-exotic-cruise-without-him\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Spooky on April 17th, 2025 Category: News A Michigan teen was recently convicted to eight months in prison for reporting a false bomb threat on a cruise ship to prevent his girlfriend from going on a cruise without him. In January 2024, a few minutes after the Carnival Sunrise cruise ship left the port<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":845594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397,3042],"tags":[6605,6125],"class_list":{"0":"post-845593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-makes","8":"category-threat","9":"tag-makes","10":"tag-threat"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}