Suspicious packages suspect Alexa Emerson charged in bomb threats

Alexa Emerson, also known as Amanda Totchek, is seen here in this photo from Facebook.

A woman police say is behind the delivery of more than a dozen suspicious packages across Saskatoon over the last six months is facing even more charges.

Alexa Emerson, who’s also known as Amanda Totchek, has been charged with six counts of uttering threats in connection with six bomb threats emailed to a handful of Saskatoon businesses in April, city police said in a media release Wednesday.

No explosives were discovered after each threat.

CTV has yet to confirm the locations of the bomb threats, but police said last month a threat at Saskatchewan Polytechnic may be tied to the suspicious packages case.

The 31-year-old Emerson is now facing 75 charges in relation to the bomb threats and the delivery of 13 suspicious packages.

Police allege she orchestrated the delivery of five suspicious packages in late November and the delivery of eight packages in March and April. The most recent deliveries saw packages containing white powder sent to local businesses, a cancer centre and a school in the city.

Emerson was in police custody at the time the first five packages were delivered. She had turned herself in to police the same morning the packages were sent out in connection to charges — criminal harassment, public mischief and providing false information — related to an October incident.

She’s accused of sending videos depicting herself being bound, assaulted and threatened to a number of people in relation to the October incident, according to a court document. The videos were intended to mislead a police officer into suspecting a man of committing a crime he did not commit, the document alleges.

Emerson has pleaded not guilty to all charges. None of the allegations against her have been proven in court.

She has been in police custody since April after a Canada-wide warrant was issued for her arrest in connection to the most recent deliveries.

She was granted bail in January on the October charges and the five initial deliveries.

The powder in all 13 deliveries was not dangerous, according to police.