Michigan man sentenced to eight months in cruise ship bomb threat

A Michigan man was sentenced this week to eight months in prison for calling in a bomb threat because he was upset his girlfriend’s family was going on a cruise without him.

Joshua Lowe, 19, was sentenced Monday during a federal court hearing in Kalamazoo, the Associated Press reported.

Federal prosecutors said he was indicted in September on a charge of making a false bomb threat.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan said that in January 2024, Carnival Cruise Lines received an email that included the warning: “Hey, I think someone might have a bomb on your sunrise cruise ship.”

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