2/6/14 Charge filed in Jan. 31 bomb threat at West Holmes Middle School

  • By Nick Sabo
  • February 6, 2014
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SUMMARY: Inducing panic charge filed in Holmes County Juvenile Court Charges have been filed in a Jan. 31 bomb threat at West Holmes Middle School. Holmes County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Sean Warner said Feb. 6 that a charge of inducing panic has been filed in Holmes County Juvenile Court against a middle school student. Warner declined identifying the student as the charge had not been served on the student, as of press time. The charge is a second-degree felony and stems from a bomb threat discovered in a boy’s restroom at the middle school. According to Holmes County Sheriff’s reports, the threat was reported at 10:02 a.m., written in pencil on the wall of a boy’s restroom. The threat was not specific to place of detonation or type of explosive device. The threat did state a time of detonation. The middle school was searched with the assistance of bomb-sniffing K9 units and no explosive device was found. A suspect was identified using surveillance footage of students leaving the restroom prior to discovery of the threat. Including the Jan. 31 incident, there have been three bomb threats in the 2013 - 2014 school year at West Holmes. The first of the three threats occurred Nov. 1 at the middle school, with the second Nov. 11 at the high school. In both cases, the threat was written on a boy’s restroom wall. A 13-year-old male student in the seventh grade was charged with inducing panic in the Nov. 1 incident. He has pleaded to the charge in Holmes County Juvenile Court and sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 27. A 15-year-old male Sophomore was charged with inducing panic in the Nov. 11 incident. He has also pleaded to the charge in Holmes County Juvenile Court and sentencing is scheduled for March 10. In both cases, the inducing panic charges were reduced from a second-degree felony to a first-degree misdemeanor.


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