MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A federal grand jury has indicted a Faribault woman for allegedly making bomb threats against 16 post offices in southern Minnesota.

Thirty-eight-year-old Christina Anne Reineke faces three counts of mailing threatening communications to the post offices and to the Faribault Daily News in February and March.

Charging documents allege she sent handwritten letters saying the bombs would kill postal employees and customers. The letter to the newspaper threatened the newspaper's office and the reporter who wrote the story.

Reineke was indicted Tuesday and is in custody.

The threatened post offices are in Mankato, North Mankato, Lake Crystal, Madelia, New Ulm, Sleepy Eye, Le Center, St. James, Northfield, Dundas, Faribault, Warsaw, Kenyon, Medford, Morristown and Owatonna.

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