• Woman from Michigan was arrested after she sent harassing text messages to two teenagers.
• The report says that the messages are specific, someone they may know.
• Licari used software by sending messages from multiple locations.

The Isabella County Sheriff’s Office said Kendra Licari told them, “She got caught up in sending the messages, and it just kept going.”

Officials said Thursday that a woman from Michigan was arrested after she sent harassing text messages to two teenagers, including her own daughter, for months.

Kendra Gail Licari, 42, of Mount Pleasant, was arrested on Dec. 8 and charged with two counts of stalking a minor and two counts of communicating with another person to commit a crime.

“Shocked and saddened, then quickly back to the students, because as educators, our students’ physical, mental, social, and emotional well-being and learning is our focus, our No. 1 priority,” Beal City Public Schools Superintendent William Chilman IV told in a statement on Thursday, summing up his reaction to Licari’s arrest.

From September 13, 2021, to February 20, 2022, Licari sent her daughter and a boy she was dating hundreds of “mean” text messages, Isabella County Sheriff Michael Main wrote in a report. Some people called the teens names that were hurtful.

The report says that the messages are specific, which suggests that they may be from someone they know.

“Most of the messages are mean-spirited and say things like, ‘Kill yourself…’ “This language is used in a lot of the messages,” the report said.

Licari is said to have hidden where she was by using software that made it look like the texts came from different numbers and area codes.

In the end, the sheriff asked for help from the FBI. Investigators from Isabella County were put in touch with a cybercrime expert from the Bay City Police Department by the federal government.

Cybersleuths eventually linked the threatening texts to “an IP address from a Spectrum host in the Mt. Pleasant area” and a user who “opened the link with an Apple Iphone,” according to the report. Main said that Licari’s was the “only number that matched anyone in this case.”

“He also found that [Licari’s] phone number was linked to the IP address every time a text message was sent to a victim,” the report said.

When Main and Detective Scott Clarke went to Licari’s house on August 10 to tell her what they had found, Licari said she hadn’t sent the early harassing text messages, “but then she got sick of it and started sending them,” the report said.

The report said that Licari said that “she got caught up in sending the messages, and it just kept going.”

The sheriff said that Licari asked “if this matter could be kept quiet and that others not find out about it” because she didn’t want her daughter to have to go to school and have other students treat her badly.

” Main told her that everyone would know.

Licari’s public phone numbers and email addresses could not be used right away on Thursday to get a comment from her.

Chilman wouldn’t say if the victim and her mother live with each other right now.

The stalking counts can get you up to five years in prison, and the computer counts can get you up to ten years.

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