Detectives trace fake bomb threat against Yelm High School to out-of-state address
Excerpt from The Olympian:
Police say they have traced a fake bomb threat against Yelm High School to a juvenile suspect in New York.
The suspect allegedly left a voicemail at the school Monday that indicated a “potential bomb threat by another student,” according to a news release from the Yelm Police Department.
Yelm Police School Resource Officers reportedly learned of the threat at 3 p.m. Monday. Detectives learned it was a hoax within two hours, then worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to trace the number to a New York address, according to the news release.
The detectives then devised a plan with New York State Police to contact a juvenile suspect at the address.
The news release says New York State Police “executed an operation” to contact the juvenile and successfully reached him at about 8 p.m. Monday. The Yelm Police post says the juvenile was “apprehended.”
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