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A minor has been detained over bomb threat utah High School, which forced students to evacuate.
Ben Lomond High School in Ogden was targeted in a bomb threat that local police Captain Tim Scott called “beyond the scale of hoax”.
Police Responding to the bomb threat last Thursday, students from the school were evacuated “almost immediately,” Scott told reporters at the time.
There was a large police presence at the school, along with Ogden firefighters, “drone teams, K-9 officers and our Metro SWAT team,” Scott said.
Ogden police said the school was completely evacuated by Thursday afternoon and no explosives were found.
“All students are safe and have been reunited with their families safely,” a Facebook post said.
Nearly a week after the horrific incident, police announced they had identified a boy from out of state as the suspect in the bomb threat.
“The suspect was located in Washington State and was taken into custody,” it said in a statement Tuesday.
Ogden Police Lieutenant William Farr said standard checker The boy was not a student of Ben Lomond High School.
It is unclear what connection, if any, the boy had to the school. Independent Ogden police have been contacted for comment.
Asked why the bomb threat was not considered a hoax, Scott said Thursday, “We have investigative information that tells us this is not a hoax. We actually had an active threat at the school.”
Ogden School District reported standard checker Tuesday, “It reaffirms the great confidence we have in local law enforcement that they have the drive and the means to apprehend and identify those who threaten the safety of our schools, regardless of whether the source originated outside of Ogden City or outside of Utah.”
The school district said it was “very pleased” with the response to the bomb threat, saying “school staff and students followed their training and completed emergency response protocols quickly and calmly.”
On Tuesday too, there was a shooting near Ben Lomond High School, in which a 16-year-old boy was killed. Scott told reporters that the incident was “in no way connected” to the bomb threat. Police have not yet identified a suspect in the shooting.