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« on: Apr 29th, 2003, 10:34am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
HONOLULU, Hawaii (Reuters) -- A young woman who wanted to leave a cruise ship to return to her boyfriend in California spent Monday night in a federal detention center here, charged with threatening to kill everyone aboard the ship to cut the cruise short, authorities said.  
 
Kelley Marie Ferguson, 20, made an initial appearance in federal court Monday to hear the charges, according to Edward Kubo Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii. A detention hearing is scheduled for May 1.  
 
Ferguson of Laguna Hills in Orange County, who was traveling with family members on Royal Caribbean's "Legend of the Seas," was charged with two counts of threatening acts of terrorism, Kubo said. Each count carries a maximum prison term of 10 years.  
 
The cruise ship was on a 10-day trip out of Ensenada, Mexico, when crew members found two handwritten notes on April 22 and 23, according to the charges. Both notes stated that if the ship docked in a U.S. port, the nearly 2,400 passengers and crew would all die.  
 
After the second note was found, authorities diverted the ship to Oahu waters and a 120-member task force of federal, state and military personnel searched the ship and interviewed people on board.  
 
The ship was searched for biological, chemical, radiological and explosive weapons, but nothing was found and the ship's cruise resumed on April 24. But Ferguson confessed the following day during an interview, Kubo said.  
 
"The defendant said that she never wanted to go on this cruise with her family and that she wrote these notes hoping that it would shorten her time on the cruise, thereby allowing her to rejoin her boyfriend in Orange County, California," Kubo said.  
 
Kubo said the incident frightened many aboard the cruise ship, but when he briefed reporters, he was more upset by the defendant's reaction.  
 
"I find it very disturbing that after causing all this fear, excitement and concern, the defendant never showed any degree of regret or remorse for her actions, not even after her arrest," Kubo said.  
 
"We do not consider such threats to be jokes. If you commit such an act and disrupt lives, we will use all of our resources to investigate and prosecute you."  
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Tough love for cruise ship 'brat'
Saturday, May 3, 2003 Posted: 1:35 PM EDT (1735 GMT)
 
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The mother of a 20-year-old woman accused of making a terrorist threat aboard a cruise ship said she wouldn't post bail for a "brat" even if a judge had granted it.  
 
"She is going to have to stay in jail and learn her lesson," Debra Ferguson told the Los Angeles Times. "This was a big, big problem, and if she has to sit in jail -- oh well. She's going to have to deal with it."  
 
Kelley Marie Ferguson, 20, remained jailed without bail Saturday at a federal detention center in Honolulu, according to Officer Lewis Gardner.  
 
The cruise ship Legend of the Seas had been en route from Ensenada, Mexico, when it was diverted April 23 to Honolulu after two threatening notes were found. The notes prompted an FBI search for biological, chemical, radiological and explosive weapons, as well as interrogations of 2,400 crew members and passengers.  
 
Kelley Ferguson, vacationing with her family aboard the ship, was accused of planting the notes so the trip would be cut short and she could get home to her boyfriend. She was charged with two counts of threatening acts of terrorism, and could face as much as 10 years in prison on each charge.  
 
U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin Chang on Thursday ordered her held without bail.  
 
Her mother said she wouldn't post bail anyway and wasn't going to "risk the rest of my family's life because of a brat."  
 
"She's going to run ... and we're going to be left with a $25,000 debt," Debra Ferguson said. "She promises not to do it again -- but yeah, right."  
 
The young woman's boyfriend, John Brashear, has said she's not a terrorist.  
 
"She's not this kind of person," he said. "To think of her doing something like this is outrageous."  
 
Prosecutors said they plan to send the charges to a grand jury next week.  
 
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