New arrest adds twist to Foxboro probe of threat to Gillette Stadium | Local News

FOXBORO — In a twist in the probe of an alleged email bomb threat to Gillette Stadium, the girlfriend of the man charged in the incident has been arrested and police are examining her cellphone.

Devon Lamarre, 22, of 236 South Main St., in Attleboro, allegedly claimed in an interview with police that she sent the email and lied to police earlier in the investigation.

She allegedly claimed that she had access to the email account of her boyfriend, Ryan Ringuette, on her phone and that he used her phone to access the account.

However, police noted in a report that Lamarre did not know who the email was sent to, the number of emails or other details. When questioned about the email, Lamarre allegedly responded “what it says in the news.”

Earlier, when Ringuette, 25, a former part-time employee at the stadium was charged, she allegedly told police she had no access to his phone and did not know his password.

Police claimed she changed her story about other aspects of the investigation and allegedly admitted to lying during the 30-minute interview.

Lamarre was arraigned last Thursday in Wrentham District Court on charges of misleading police and is free on her own recognizance. She was not charged with making the threat.

Her lawyer, Frank Yee of Franklin, declined to comment on the case Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Ringuette’s lawyer filed paperwork the same day Lamarre was arraigned to appeal Ringuette’s bail. He has been in jail on $5,000 cash bail since his arraignment Aug. 8 and has pleaded innocent to making a false bomb threat and threatening to commit a crime.

Ringuette, who pleaded guilty in 2012 to making threats to Attleboro High School through Facebook and received a suspended jail sentence, denies sending the email to his former supervisor at the stadium, according to his aunt.

The email contained an expletive and the phrase “I’ll blow that bitch up,” a threat authorities say was a reference to the stadium.

Authorities say Ringuette had no access to bomb-making materials.

The charges against Lamarre filed by Foxboro police follow her arrest by Attleboro police on Aug. 6 at the apartment they share.

In that incident, Ringuette left the apartment after a verbal argument and flagged down a police officer asking for help in getting his car keys returned, according to a police report.

After a subsequent investigation, Lamarre was charged with breaking Ringuette’s cellphone earlier that morning.

She pleaded innocent in Attleboro District Court the following day to vandalizing property and was freed on her own recognizance.