A Utah woman was charged this week with falsely reporting a school shooting to divert officers on the verge of arresting her friends.

Court records show that dispatchers got a call on May 24 that someone was heading to Lehi High School with an AK-47 “to do some damage,” KSL reported.

“This resulted in an emergency response from at least 40 officers from multiples agencies, and the entire high school was evacuated and cleared,” a search warrant affidavit says.

That call was later determined to be a hoax.

On the same day, Lehi police officers were investigating a series of car burglaries and had pulled over a car believed to contain a stolen Apple Watch that the owner was tracking.

The officer questioned Emry Jaron Hall, 25, and Aubrey Anna Merrill Snow, 30, and noticed several bags and items he suspected might be stolen. He applied for a search warrant for the vehicle.

“While the officer was waiting for a warrant return, the officer was called to a school shooting at Lehi High School. After the school was secure, detectives began investigating the school shooting threat,” a charging document says.

Investigators determined that Hall had called a friend, Dorothy Bell Moran, during the potential arrest and that the hoax school shooting call had come from a phone belonging to Moran. Further, phone records showed that the hoax call came in two minutes after Hall called Moran.

“The purpose of the threat was to divert (the officer) from his traffic stop and that there was no threat to the school,” the charging document says.

Moran, 45, was charged Thursday in 4th District Court with emergency reporting abuse, obstructing justice, and making threats against a school.

Moran was charged with fraud in 2006 after giving birth using stolen identification, KSL reported. She abandoned the baby at the hospital, and the infant was placed in foster care. The charges were later dropped when she agreed to plead guilty to theft charges and pay restitution.

Hall and Snow have also been charged in connection with multiple burglaries in the area.

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[Featured image: Dorothy Bell Moran in 2013/Salt Lake City Police Department]