Pre-Teen Charged with Bomb Threat to Texas Middle School, Say Police

Prosecutors in Levelland, Texas, charged an 11-year-old boy with making a bomb threat against his intermediate school. The arrest is the third in the panhandle school district in less than a week.

Prosecutors say that the 11-year-old wrote a note stating a bomb would go off in the school at a specific time. An unidentified person found the note in one of the school’s bathrooms and turned it over to officials, KCBD CBS11 in Lubbock reported. While the bomb squad found no explosive device, the boy is now in the Lubbock County Juvenile Justice Center on a charge of making a felony terroristic threat. Officials did not indicate how they determined the 11-year-old’s alleged involvement with the note.

On Friday, KCBD reported that prosecutors charged a 15-year-old boy with making a false report of a threat against Levelland High School. The boy allegedly told people there was a bomb threat note in the bathroom. School officials and law enforcement officers found no such note. However, because making a false report about a threat is a state jail felony in Texas, Levelland police officers arrested the boy and took him to the juvenile detention center.

Levelland Police Chief Albert Garcia took to social media to reassure parents and students that there was no real threat.

“Understand if we find a suspect, we are going to go ahead and move forward with the filing of the charges,” the chief stated, “and working diligently with our district attorney’s office and our county’s attorney’s office to ensure that we get a prosecution.”

On Thursday, officials found another note making a threat against the intermediate school in the boys’ bathroom. The note claimed a bomb would go off at 3 p.m. Investigators found no explosive device but tied the note to a 15-year-old girl. Police officers arrested the girl and she is charged with making a felony terroristic threat.

Officials did not disclose if the three incidents are related in any way, but all three forced the evacuation of the schools.

All three of the children are scheduled to appear before a Texas court on Monday.