By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A 12-year-old student was arrested for making a bomb threat yesterday at Onalaska Elementary-Middle School.
Students were evacuated to the high school and deputies called about 9:40 a.m. searched the cafeteria and found nothing suspicious, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
The seventh-grader allegedly had told friends he put a bomb in the cafeteria and it would go off in seven minutes. He told authorities he was just joking.
The student, whose name was not released, was booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center for making a bomb threat.
The arrest follows a similar incident at Adna Middle-High School on April Fools Day in which deputies were called to search a classroom after a student reportedly made comments on his Facebook page related to having a gun at school, according to sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust.
That student also said it was just a prank, Aust said.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter