Florida Woman Charged with Telephoning Threats to OU

4/24/07 -- Norman, OK - A Florida woman who has been allegedly sending threats to members of the OU African American Studies Department for over two years is charged with a crime.

According to court records, Rose Njoroge of Tallahassee, Florida, "over the past two years ... has sent several obscene, harassing and threatening email messages and voice messages... "

The probable cause affidavit details some of the alleged unsolicited correspondence sent by Njoroge as follows;

1. Excerpt from email sent. "I am also warning you Dr. Heiser, if OU continues to send any threats or letters to me or my son about fees or tuition after the school benefited from my son's abuse, this will end in tragedy!"
2. Excerpt from another email to another person from OU. "Remember you will pay for this, no matter what it will cost me, and no matter how long it takes!"
3. Excerpt from an email to the same person above. "Nigger, I am monitoring everything you do before you are locked up with other criminal perverts! Every time you look at your stupid nigger face in the mirror, remember time for reckoning is approaching!"

Investigators initiated an "email header trace" and tracked the emails to Tallahassee, Florida, where Njoroge lives. Additionally, "the caller ID and phone number left on several of the voice messages is Njoroge's home phone number."

Finally, "the caller's voice has been identified as Rose Njoroge by several [of] the OU faculty members that have met Njorog."

On April 19, Njoroge was charged in Cleveland County with the misdemeanor crime of making harassing telephone calls.