Texas police are looking for a woman who allegedly called in a fake bomb threat to an airport, claiming her ex-boyfriend was the one who wanted to “shoot up the place.”
According to charging documents obtained by Law&Crime, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office found probable cause to arrest Trekalon Price, 25, for falsely reporting a bomb threat at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
According to the document, a woman later identified as Price called the airport on Jan. 4 to report that her 38-year-old ex-boyfriend, who was flying into Houston and was scheduled to fly to Cedar Rapids Airport in Iowa later that day, was “going to bomb” both locations. She provided only her ex-boyfriend’s name, physical description, and phone number.
When law enforcement contacted the purported suspect, they discovered that he had no plans to bomb any airports.
According to the document, Price also reported a threat to Cedar Rapids Airport, claiming 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 had a firearm in his bag. She had no additional information about how she received the alleged threat.
When asked for her contact information on both calls, she allegedly gave a fake phone number.
The threats were taken seriously, according to the document, and the TSA dispatched K-9 units and bomb technicians to search the Iowa airport.
According to the charging document, 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 informed him of the calls claiming he planned to “shoot up the place” and plant a bomb, and asked him if he knew who would make such statements about him.
He had an answer: Price, the girl he was “messing around with” for the majority of 2024. According to the report, he was in a relationship with Price from April to November 2024, and she “likes to use those phone apps to make calls with different numbers.”
He told the officer that he last spoke with Price in late 2024, but she knew his whereabouts because he thought she was communicating with the “baby momma” he was flying out to see.
His involvement with Price also reportedly cost him his job. According to the ex, Price allegedly called into his former job posing as a probation officer, telling his employer that he had “failed a urine test for drugs” and instructing his employer to fire him. She later called back and admitted that she was not a probation officer.
The employer, who was named 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.”
When the officer played the bomb threat call to Bush Airport, the employer allegedly “immediately” recognized Price’s voice, 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 with the man’s child’s mother, who stated that she had communicated with Price via FaceTime but had never been informed of the man’s travel plans. She also told police that Price “feels bad” about the calls that cost him his job, as well as the alleged calls to airports.
When the recordings of the airport calls were played back, the woman recognized Price’s voice.
Price has not yet been discovered.