Pre-teen charged for school bomb threat |
| April 17, 2013 |
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A 12-year-old Bonners Ferry girl has been
charged for a bomb threat made at Boundary
County Middle School January 15. The Boundary County Prosecutor's Office filed one count of falsely reporting an explosive device in a public place on February 19 for allegedly writing "Bomb 1:00" on a girl's restroom wall. The girl, whose name is being withheld pending adjudication and a finding of guilt, denied her guilt in an initial appearance in March, and an adjudicatory hearing has been scheduled for 9:30 a.m. June 13 in Boundary County before Judge Debra A. Heise. Heise denied a defense motion to close the case to the public on March 19. Were the girl an adult, the charge, a violation of Idaho Code 18-3313, would be a felony, carrying a maximum penalty of five years in prison. In addition to this charge, two other cases have been filed in the Boundary County Courts, also against juveniles; those cases remain closed pending an initial appearance by the accused. In the last two years, county public schools have been disrupted by 10 bomb threats, all of them false. |