AMHERST — Though she was allowed to leave a women’s prison in Framingham after being held there since July 17, Amy I. Zuckerman was placed back into custody Tuesday evening for violating conditions of her release.
Zuckerman, 64, was arrested at 5:28 p.m. at the intersection of Amity and North Prospect streets on a warrant for not following the conditions of her release, Amherst Detective Marcus Humber said.
The specific violation was not immediately available from Amherst Police or officials at Wrentham District Court, where a judge had previously ordered her to be held at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Framingham for 120 days following a dangerousness hearing.
A clerk at the Wrentham court said Zuckerman will be held without bail until a hearing Monday.
Zuckerman, whose last address was 457 Wendell Road, Shutesbury, was arrested last month on a Walpole Police warrant charging her with making terroristic threats after being accused of saying she would shoot people at The Walpole Times newspaper.
Last Friday, Norfolk County Superior Court Judge Peter Krupp, at a bail review hearing, set conditions by which Zuckerman could be released from the jail, including that she be outfitted with a GPS bracelet.
Zuckerman was permitted to stay, on a temporary basis, at the Knights Inn on Route 9 in Hadley, according to Krupp’s decision, though she was mandated to return to Wrentham District Court for a probable cause hearing Aug. 17 related to the incident in July for which she was arrested on a charge of making terroristic threats after an employee at the Walpole newspaper reported she twice threatened to shoot people at its office.
At the hearing, Krupp said Zuckerman could be let out of jail for a period of time, with the conditions of her release including staying away from Walpole and that community’s newspaper, continuing mental health treatment, not posting on social media, making no contact with the Walpole newspaper or any other newspaper, and abiding by a curfew between midnight and 5 a.m. daily.
Zuckerman is an author, journalist and founder of the Hidden Tech networking association.
The incident at the Walpole newspaper came the same day in July that the Daily Hampshire Gazette sought a trespass notice against Zuckerman following an incident at the newspaper’s 115 Conz St. office in Northampton, according to Gazette Publisher Michael Rifanburg.