A Santa Barbara County sheriff\u2019s bomb squad was dispatched to the home of a youth after threats were made to a school, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Two explosive devices were recovered from the boy\u2019s home Saturday, and officials said the \u201cpotential school threat\u201d had been thwarted.<\/p>\n
Raquel Zick, a spokesperson for the county Sheriff\u2019s Office, declined to say which school had been threatened but noted there were \u201cno on-campus aspects.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sheriff\u2019s Office said an investigation was launched Aug. 18 when deputies received a report that a male juvenile had made \u201cconcerning statements about harming others.\u201d The pair of explosive devices were found Saturday in the boy\u2019s home in the Orcutt area and safely recovered, sheriff\u2019s officials said in a statement Wednesday. <\/p>\n
As crisis intervention deputies combed through the juvenile\u2019s online activity and searched his residence, they found he had an online connection with an Illinois juvenile with similarly \u201cconcerning interests,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n
The agency said that it alerted the appropriate Illinois law enforcement agency of its findings, and the Illinois agency did not deem it to be an actionable threat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Santa Barbara County sheriff\u2019s bomb squad was dispatched to the home of a youth after threats were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4742,10360,7,9,8,11055,1073,348,18547,346,3335,176177,20790,28931,36696,2637,176176,3025],"class_list":["post-444601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-agency","tag-aug","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-explosive","tag-home","tag-investigation","tag-juvenile","tag-office","tag-official","tag-online-activity","tag-pair","tag-santa-barbara-county-sheriff","tag-school-threat","tag-sheriff","tag-socal-boy","tag-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}