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DALLAS — A Delaware County woman threatened to “blow up” and “kill” local Pennsylvania Game Commission officials in profanity-laced phone calls earlier this year, according to court documents.
Augusta Dirosato, 23, of Media, allegedly made the threats in January, using a cellphone belonging to her mother. She now faces a slew of charges.
According to the criminal complaint:
A Game Commission dispatcher received a blocked telephone call at the agency’s Northeast Regional Office in Dallas at 9:21 a.m. on Jan. 7.
The caller, later identified as Dirosato, said she had an emergency — “ignorant, egotistical humans that think it is OK to hunt animals.”
Dirosato then allegedly said the agency would be lucky if she didn’t “blow it the (expletive) up with everyone inside. You disgusting piece of (expletive).”
The call then disconnected, and a second call was made at 9:24 a.m. The caller, again identified as Dirosato, made additional threats.
“You like killing little innocent animals. Well how about this you stupid (expletive), I’m going to kill you,” Dirosato is accused of saying.
The Game Commission then contacted officers from Dallas Township who listened to the recordings of the calls. The officers contacted Frontier Communications and obtained the telephone number from which the calls originated.
Officers were then able to determine later that month that the number in question belonged to Barbara Maletsky, and further investigation revealed that there were five calls made in succession to numbers associated with the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
A caller from the number in question then made a call to Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Media, and said she couldn’t use a car to drive somewhere because her mother had the car at work. Investigators then turned their attention to Maletsky’s daughters, eventually naming Dirosato as the suspect.
Dirosato is charged with terroristic threats, bomb threats, criminal use of a communication facility, false alarm to an agency of public safety, stalking, harassment and disorderly conduct.
The criminal complaint was filed on April 13, but court documents did not indicate when Dirosato’s preliminary hearing was.