Seymour police have arrested a student who allegedly made a false bomb threat at the Seymour Middle School Thursday morning.
The female student was charged with falsely reporting an incident, a class D felony, according to a statement released by Lt. Paul Satkowski.
The incident occurred at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, when a suspicious note indicating a “bomb threat” was found in the girls’ bathroom in the school’s main lobby.
Police have also arrested another female student yesterday for a separate bomb threat at Seymour High School on Botsford Road.
That threat was found in a message in a second-floor girls’ bathroom about 8 a.m.
Police charged that student with falsely reporting an incident.
Both students will appear in juvenile court in Waterbury. The names of the students were not released because they are minors.
Satkowski said the department has requested two additional arrest warrants for a bomb threat at the Seymour High School last week.
Arrests are expected soon, Satkowski said.
The following was posted at 2 p.m. Thursday:
Seymour Middle School was evacuated Thursday morning after a bomb threat was found in a girls’ bathroom.
Police quickly cleared the building and students re-entered after no bomb was found.
It was the second bomb scare of the day for public schools in the Valley, and the second in two weeks in Seymour. Another bathroom note prompted the evacuation of Shelton High School on Thursday morning. That was the fourth bomb threat hoax in several weeks in Shelton.
At around noon, Lt. Paul Satkowski of the Seymour police department and several officers were still investigating the bomb note.
Satkowski said a note was found in a first-floor girls’ bathroom at around 10:30 a.m. on Thursday. The message said there was a bomb in the building. Police, firefighters, and EMS personnel showed up. Police performed a quick check of the building and determined it was safe for students to re-enter, Satkowski said.
Satkowski said the author of the note was probably a student.
“It’s definitely someone within the school community,” he said. “Students think it’s a prank.”
“All threats are taken seriously by the Seymour police department,” Satkowski said. If the perpetrator is found, “we will make an arrest,” he said. The charge could be anything from breach of peace to making a false report of an emergency, which is a Class D felony, he said.
“This type of action is not and cannot be tolerated,” he said.
It’s a costly use of resources to send emergency personnel to check out bomb threats, he said.
Arrest Made
Satkowski said an arrest was made on Wednesday in the case of a recent bomb threat at the Seymour high school. Suspects in a bomb scare last week have been identified, he said.
“It’s Scary”
Kami Chawla, the mother of a Seymour middle school sixth-grader, arrived after the police did on Thursday morning, but the bomb scare didn’t interfere with her scheduled parent-teacher conference.
Bomb threats are upsetting for her daughter, she said. “It’s scary.”
Chawla expressed frustration with students who pull off bomb threats. If they want to get out of school, why not just skip class? she asked. Repeated bomb threats also mean they aren’t taken seriously, she said. “What if it’s a real one, one time?”
