A teenager made an impulsive decision when his girlfriend left him at home to go on a Carnival Cruise with her family, leading him to send in a bomb threat to the cruise line, as reported by the NY Post. 

Joshua Lowe, 19, was sentenced to eight months in prison for making a false bomb threat, On Monday. “We take every threat of mass violence seriously,” stated U.S. Attorney Mark Totten in a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan.

The defendant confessed to sending the email in January 2024 after “FBI agents traced the email address to Lowe, who was living with his girlfriend’s family,” according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler in a court filing reviewed by The Associated Press. The report stated that the defendant confessed to authorities that he sent the email “because he was upset that the family went on the cruise, while leaving him behind to care for their pets.” 

Carnival Search Passengers Rooms

At the time, Lowe was living with the family. In the email to Carnival Cruise Lines, he wrote, “Hey, I think someone might have a bomb on your sunrise cruise ship.” AP reports that more than 1,000 rooms on the ship were searched by the crew after it departed from Miami heading to Jamaica, due to the serious nature of the threat,. People stated that Carnival also had to alert the U.S. Coast Guard and Jamaican officials after receiving the email. 

In response, Jamaica’s Marine Police “escorted the ship to port.” Lowe accepted responsibility for his actions in a letter addressed to U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney, who sentenced him. “This is entirely my fault, and I take full responsibility,” he wrote. In addition to his prison sentence, Lowe has been ordered “to pay restitution for costs related to the hoax.”

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