Woman Jailed for Sending Herself Threat Texts
A California woman has been jailed after it was revealed she had been sending threatening text messages to herself.
Two years ago, Jeanne Mundango Manunga, a 25-year-old woman from Santa Ana, found herself in a situation that she felt warranted a police intervention: Jeanne was receiving threatening text messages from her ex-boyfriend and his sister-in-law.
Manunga went to three different police departments and explained that her ex-boyfriend and his sister were sending her threatening messages. After 19 complaints from Manunga, the police issued arrest warrants for the two hostile texters. The sister-in-law was arrested three times and on one occasion, spent time in jail while she tried to get bail money together. However, it appears Manunga was lying to the police.
Jeanne likely just wanted to get her ex and his sister-in-law into trouble, however, she probably didn't bank on the two victims teaming up to uncover her lies. They went to a phone store and learned Jeanne had bought and registered a cell phone in the sister-in-law's name. They told police and detectives soon discovered that all the threatening text messages were sent when the pre-paid cell phone was in close proximity to Manunga's home or work.
The Orange County Register reports that Manunga was Friday sentenced to a year in prison and placed on three years probation for false imprisonment by fraud or deceit, and two misdemeanor counts of making a false police report. She was also told to stay away from her ex-boyfriend and his sister-in-law and ordered to pay them $50,000 in restitution.
(Orange County Register via CNet)
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Bitches be crazy.
I hope they throw the book at her! What these drama queens think is acceptable is just insane and maybe throwing a few in jail will get others to smarten up!
There is only 1 word for this POWNED!!!
terrible, terrible person. enough said
Jeesh, some people. I guess this attempt for attention backfired on her.
The state should give them the 50k, that way they actually get it. I'd be pissed, I would also want more than 50k.
What a dumb ass...
I would have expected more then a year in jail, but then 50K in restitution sounds equal, but only if that 50K pays all previous legal fees, lost wages, and suffering.
Is it $50,000 each or total? Also, why force the punishment of one person onto the local taxpayers by making the government pay for it? Shouldn't the one responsible for this be the one to pay for it? She will be forced to sell off assets to pay it (house, car, etc)....
So, the victims figured it out for themselves and did the job that the detectives were supposed to do. Police negligence is the real story here.
It is so sad that the police didn't do their job! Why did it take two years to finally catch the culprit? I personally did receive a phone call from that lady just after talking to one of the victims. Until today, I don't know how she was able to get my number. She wanted to know if her ex boyfriend was coming to visit me.
In the end she's still the one that got owned.
The title was a bit misleading, but wow. Some of these women...
Hilariously pathetic attempts to frame someone you hate. I at least hope she didn't use her credit card to buy the pre-pay phone... then she may as well put a stick-it note on for forehead saying "I didn't do it".
Crazy though some ppl dont think before doing supid stuff
Mama said don't date them H@e$
Doesn't the article say she made 19 reports? If they were all false, why only two counts of false reports?
Way to go Tom's
The state should give them the 50k, that way they actually get it. I'd be pissed, I would also want more than 50k.
lol why should tax payers foot this bill..? tard lol
Bitches be crazy.
Thank you, that was most unexpected.
Why didn't the police fully investigate this themselves? Its shocking that a phone registered in some one elses name is good enough proof for them
There is only 1 word for this POWNED!!!
It's actually PWND! misspelling it on purpose for some reason.
The taxpayers are fortunate the woman arrested multiple times isn't suing the police as well.
uh...huh... I'm seriously getting tired of this "arrested for texting" stuff.
So what the article tries to tell us is: Woman are crazy... anyone who didn't know this before?
uh...huh... I'm seriously getting tired of this "arrested for texting" stuff.
woman arrested wasting police time and trying to frame her boyfriend. The headline is crap isn't it..
Woman arrested for using phone.
Why would she want to get his sister in law in trouble ??? Surely she would not care about getting her ex's brother's wife in trouble??? Surely it should be her ex sister-in-law???
Sounds like HE made a lucky escape from that crazy.
I bet she hates em both cause they are soo much more intelligent than she is. bwahahahaa
See is what is wrong with the justice system. Someone makes a complaint and as long as they insist on it, you are in crap.
Doesn't matter what lack of evidence they have...
The police departments should get sued for a million so they wisen up and curb this behavior.
I think the first thing to have done by the detectives would be to contact the purps phone carrier and subpoena outgoing text messages for a given time frame.
From that, trace back on the "victims" phone through that carrier and find the source.
Doesn't sound to complicated to me...