Prosecutors have decided not to prosecute 33-year-old Dominique Natoya Whitehead, who was charged following a May 7 report of a bomb threat at Trinity Mission Health & Rehab in Farmville.

“Because when we looked at the evidence and it was corroborated by other parties, there was no intent — no criminal intent — no intent to create a bomb threat,” Commonwealth’s Attorney James R. Ennis said Tuesday. “Although ultimately it turned out to be an overreaction, it probably was the proper reaction to the note that was found.”

The note, he said, referred to a person, “not the fact there was a bomb in the building.”

According to an earlier press release from the County sheriff’s office, “a sticky note was found in a residential room” that “claimed that a bomb was in the building.” Residents of the facility were evacuated.

“I deeply regret any trauma and inconvenience experienced by the Trinity Mission Nursing Home residents and staff because of the evacuation of the building after the note was found,” Whitehead said in a written statement provided this week by her attorney, A. Pierre Jackson. “I also regret the time, manpower and other resources, including the bomb sniffing dog that had to be used as a result of my action. My intent was a joke with my supervisor, and I never anticipated the result.”

Whitehead thanked the sheriff’s office for its thorough investigation, coworkers for their support, the commonwealth’s attorney “that was guided by seeking truth and justice,” the media “for reporting my exoneration after reporting my arrest” and her attorney.