School bomb threat escalated |
| March 18, 2013 |
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On Thursday, the Bonners Ferry High School
Student Council held a special assembly in
response to a bomb threat found in a boys locker
room stall March 7, the eighth bomb threat to
disrupt a school this year. On the first school day after that assembly, threat number nine was received, and this one prompted all five county public schools being closed early and all student activities for the day to be cancelled. At about 10:05 a.m. today, a 911 call was made to the Boundary County Sheriff's Office in which the caller threatened to "blow up the school." The individual did not specify which school. Due to the ongoing investigation, little information is being released by law enforcement. Thus far, the threats have all been confined to a single campus, either the high school or junior high. Today, Bonners Ferry police, sheriff's deputies, Idaho State Police, Customs and Border Patrol Officers and more had to descend on five schools scattered throughout Boundary County. Though the threat, once again, appears to be a hoax, law enforcement and emergency personnel once again had no choice but to take the threat seriously. While the investigation will continue, classes in Boundary County public schools will resume on normal schedule on Tuesday. This story will be updated as information becomes available. |