That’s one way to get a cop’s attention.From our sister blog True Crime Report comes the story of Spokane’s Tina Blanchette. A woman who apparently thinks death threats, automatic weapons and sexting are great tastes that taste great together.”Tina Blanchette, an employee of the Washington state social services department, was busted for growing 75 marijuana plants inside her house. It shouldn’t have been a big deal, seeing as how the Pacific west is so much cooler than the rest of us on these matters.”But Blanchette decided to make it one.”After Spokane police raided her home last month, the deputy heading the case received 61 texts from her phone the next day. In her quest to get cops to back off, she invoked a rare one-two combination of threatening missives — simultaneously warning that she’d shoot the officer’s family, while also sending sexually explicit photos of herself.””‘Skanky’ is how one cop described the photos.”By the time it was all over, Blanchette had sent more than 300 texts, voice mails, and bare naked pictorial renderings of herself. They portray her as a dangerous narcissist bent on mayhem while looking epically sweet — at least in her own mind.”‘I look so hot with a 10mm and a shotgun,’ she wrote in one. ‘You aint even going to know when it’s coming (expletive) I’m going to take you down slow and easy.’ she wrote in another.”This wasn’t the first time Blanchette had threatened others with her keen sense of vengeance and wicked hotness. She’d also been sexually harassing and threatening coworkers at her state job, sending them messages as well.”Police believe she may have accessed state computers to find out personal information on the deputy. Now she’s charged with turning a minor possession bust into threatening to kill a cop. But at least she looks good in orange.”
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