Feeds11-year-old makes bomb threat
Bomb-sniffing dogs cleared Blanchette Middle School for students on Friday after a threat was reported to police, according to police reports.
Ofc. Camille Howard said school security called police to report that students had told them an 11-year-old male classmate wrote that the school would blow up at 12:30 p.m. on May 6.
“Some of the students told the security staff what the student wrote,” she said. “That led us to him.”
After school was closed, Michigan State Police bomb sniffing dogs checked out the entire building, and it was determined that the threat was not credible. Students were never in danger at the school, police said.
The boy was taken into custody, and is awaiting a hearing at juvenile court to determine why he made the threat, Howard said.
Bomb threats have become commonplace in many cities, and its not the first time Inkster Public Schools has dealt with one.
In 2006, Inkster High School was evacuated after receiving a bomb threat by phone, and it turned out, nothing was found at the school.
Law enforcement officials see such threats as a possible danger within the community, and its likely there will be ramifications for the student, police said.
Calls made to Inkster Schools headquarters were not immediately returned Tuesday.
Not much is known about the student who made the threat, other than he is a resident of Inkster and is in the sixth grade. It is generally the policy of The Inkster Ledger-Star not to name under-aged persons charged with a crime in the juvenile system.
Classes were in session at Blanchette, which is on Henry Ruff Road, and there were no incidents at the school, police said.
