Sprungl announces second hoax confession |
| March 23, 2013 |
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Boundary County Sheriff Greg Sprungl announced
during today's Lincoln Day luncheon that a
second call-in bomb hoax case is being turned
over to prosecutor Jack Douglas for a bomb
threat called in to the sheriff's office on
Tuesday. In this case investigators also obtained an admission, this one at long distance, thanks to inter-agency cooperation. On Friday afternoon, chief deputy Rich Stephens turned the case on a hoax threat called in Monday via 911 to prosecutor Jack Douglas after a Boundary County youth admitted to placing the call, which prompted early closure of all five public schools in Boundary County. That youth, Stephens said, is not a public school student. And neither was the one who called in the week's second bomb threat Tuesday, which was almost immediately deemed not credible, though authorities never said say why. It turns out that the second call was made by a youth who isn't connected to Boundary County public schools either, or even to Boundary County. Thanks to an almost immediate phone trace and interagency law enforcement cooperation, an admission in that case was obtained in fairly short order from a 12-year-old more than 600 miles away, in Southern, Idaho, who will likely soon get a summons to visit beautiful North Idaho, not to enjoy the scenery, but to face criminal charges. According to Sprungl, the final touches are being put on the sheriff's investigation and that case will go to the prosecutor on Sunday. Again, it appears that this latest case has no connection to eight earlier written threats found in both the high school and middle school. "We know that everyone is tired of these threats," Sprungl said. "We're putting every effort into seeing that they are at an end." |