Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas (Google Maps).
Texas police are looking for a woman who allegedly called in a fake bomb threat to an airport, naming her ex-boyfriend as the one who wanted to “shoot up the place.”
In charging documents obtained by Law&Crime, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office said there was probable cause to arrest 25-year-old Trekalon Price for falsely reporting a bomb threat at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. According to the document, a woman later identified as Price allegedly called the airport on Jan. 4 to report that her 38-year-old ex-boyfriend, who was flying into Houston and was planning to fly to Cedar Rapids Airport in Iowa later that day, was “going to bomb” both locations. She provided no other information aside from her ex-boyfriend’s name, physical description, and phone number.
When law enforcement contacted the purported suspect, they soon realized that he had no intentions to bomb any airports.
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According to the document, Price allegedly also called in a threat to Cedar Rapids Airport, telling them that her ex “had made statements about shooting at the Cedar Rapids Airport or using a bomb.” She also allegedly stated during the call that he was carrying a firearm in his bag. Once again, she had no additional information about how she received the supposed threat.
For both calls, she allegedly provided a fake phone number when asked for her contact information.
The threats were taken seriously, the document said, and the TSA deployed K-9 units and bomb technicians to sweep the Iowa airport.
The charging document says that when the man accused by Price was contacted by phone, he had no knowledge of any threats and was in “disbelief” at the accusation. A Houston police officer told him about the calls that stated he supposedly planned to “shoot up the place” and plant a bomb, asking him if he had any idea who would make such statements about him.
He had an answer: Price, the girl he was “messing around with” for most of 2024. The report stated that his relationship with Price lasted from April 2024 to November 2024, and that she reportedly “likes to use those phone apps to make calls with different numbers.” He told the officer that the last time he had spoken to Price in late 2024, but she knew his whereabouts because he believed she was communicating with the “baby momma” he was flying out to visit.
His entanglements with Price also reportedly cost him a job. The ex told police that Price allegedly called in to his former job posing as a probation officer, telling his employer that he had “failed a urine test for drugs” and instructed his employer to fire him. She later called back and admitted she wasn’t a probation officer. The employer, identified as a witness in the document, confirmed that “the determining factor in the termination of [the ex] was the communications by defendant and the constant issues she was repeatedly causing.”
The employer also allegedly recognized Price’s voice when the officer played the bomb threat call to Bush Airport, reportedly “immediately” stating “100% that’s her” and identifying her voice “as the same caller that would call his office to attempt to get [the ex] fired.”
Police also spoke to the mother of the man’s child, who stated that she did communicate with Price over FaceTime, but never told her about the man’s travel plans. She also told police that Price apparently “feels bad” about the calls that cost the man his job and the alleged calls to the airports.
The woman also positively identified Price’s voice when played the recording of the airport calls.
Price has not yet been apprehended.
