4/10/14 High school student gets 30 days for bomb threat

  • By Nick Sabo
  • March 10, 2014
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SUMMARY: Sophomore further ordered to complete community service, pay for bomb squad A West Holmes Sophomore with no prior criminal record or disciplinary problems was ordered to serve a period of incarceration for making a bomb threat at the high school. The student, a male 15-year-old Sophomore, was sentenced Monday March 10 by Holmes County Juvenile Court Judge Thomas Lee to serve 30 days at the Richland County Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) on one count of inducing panic, a first degree misdemeanor. The charge was reduced from a second degree felony in exchange for the boy’s admission to the charge against him. The Sophomore is the second student to be charged in an unrelated string of four bomb threats at West Holmes school district, and the second to receive a term of incarceration at sentencing. The charge stems from Nov. 11, when the student wrote a bomb threat on the wall of a boy’s restroom at the school. The high school was evacuated, and law enforcement, assisted by bomb-sniffing dogs from the Columbus Division of Fire, made a sweep of the school. No explosive device was found. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Sean Warner said the boy admitted to making the threat “on the spur of the moment” without thinking ahead as to what might happen. The boy received the 30 days at JDC despite having no prior history of juvenile delinquency or serious behavior issues at school. A 13-year-old male middle school student who wrote a bomb threat on a restroom wall at the middle school Nov. 1 was also previously sentenced to 30 days at JDC. Warner indicated that two other suspects who have been charged with making bomb threats - a male middle school student and a female student in the fifth grade at Millersburg Elementary - can expect to receive similar sentences. “The nature of these threats...they make them and don’t think about the consequences,” Warner said. “I think that’s why you’re seeing these kids with no prior records getting these kinds of sentences.” Lee further sentenced the Sophomore to complete 100 hours of community service and pay restitution for the cost of bringing the bomb sniffing dogs up from Columbus. The county has a service agreement with Akron for bomb detection, Warner said, but the Akron squad was not available Nov. 11. The boy is to further write letters of apology. A male middle school student has been charged in juvenile court in a Jan. 31 bomb threat, discovered in a middle school boy’s restroom. In the Jan. 31 incident, the middle school was evacuated and searched. The female suspect at the elementary school was identified in a March 6 bomb threat, written on a note that was discovered in a girl’s restroom. The school was not evacuated.


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