News brief: Suspect in Winlock High School bomb threat arrested

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – A 15-year-old student was arrested yesterday after allegedly confessing he was behind the boys’ locker room bathroom stall message about a bomb at Winlock High School earlier this week so “he could get out of school early.”

Sheriff’s deputies yesterday followed up on the Tuesday incident that led to an evacuation conducting interviews with multiple students and reviewing surveillance video, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

The suspect, who lives in Chehalis, was contacted at his home, according to the sheriff’s office. He was not at school yesterday, because the day before he had been found smoking marijuana on the football field, Chief Deputy Bruce Kimsey said.

The boy was booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center for making a bomb threat and possession of marijuana, Kimsey said.

Kimsey said there is no evidence linking the boy to previous similar incidents at the school.

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