NORTHAMPTON — A Shutesbury woman accused of threatening to shoot people at The Walpole Times newspaper earlier this month will be held at a women’s jail for the next 120 days.
At a dangerousness hearing at Wrentham District Court Tuesday, a judge ordered that Amy I. Zuckerman, 64, of 457 Wendell Road, be sent to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Framingham.
Zuckerman will return to the Wrentham court for a probable cause hearing Aug. 13. A court-ordered clinician also evaluated Zuckerman on Tuesday. That clinician determined she would not be sent for further evaluation.
Zuckerman was arrested by Amherst Police at the town’s police station on Main Street on the morning of July 7 on a Walpole Police warrant charging her with making terroristic threats.
Walpole police officer Gaelen Z. Beberman cited an email from Zuckerman to an employee at the newspaper, in which she twice threatened to shoot people at its office, as the basis of the criminal complaint.
“Anyway, I can shoot you walk through that window at The Walpole Times,” Zuckerman wrote. “Start reading my tweets and Facebook posts. Those people on the list will save your life.”
Zuckerman is an author, journalist and founder of the Hidden Tech networking association. The incident at the Walpole newspaper came the same day the Daily Hampshire Gazette sought a trespass notice against Zuckerman following an incident at the newspaper’s 115 Conz St. office in Northampton, according to Gazette Publisher Michael Rifanburg.
After Zuckerman was asked to leave the building due to her behavior, she wrote a lengthy email to staff members that raised additional concerns.
