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Woman Jailed for Texting Threats to Herself

With a former girlfriend like this, who needs enemies?

Consider the 25-year-old Southern California woman sentenced to a year in jail Friday after being convicted of sending hundreds of threatening text messages to herself — in a bid to get her former boyfriend and his sister-in-law arrested by blaming them as the authors.

Jeanne Manunga had reported the texts she was sending to herself to three different police departments following her 2008 breakup. Orange County prosecutors told the Orange County Register that the defendant used a pre-paid cell phone she purchased in her former boyfriend’s sister-in-law’s name to send herself the texts.

The former boyfriend was arrested once and his sister-in-law three times. Superior Court Judge Patrick H. Donahue ordered the defendant to pay the victims $50,000 in restitution.

The authorities cracked the case after the victims tracked down where Manunga purchased the pre-paid phone.

A jury convicted Manunga in May of three counts of felony false imprisonment by fraud and two misdemeanors for filing false police reports.

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